Word Finder - stabbed

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To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.

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If you stab him in the heart he won't live long enough to retaliate.

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To thrust in a stabbing motion.

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to stab a dagger into a person

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To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).

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He stabbed at my face with the twig but luckily kept missing my eyes.

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To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).

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The snow from the blizzard was stabbing at my face as I skied down the mountain.

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To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.

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to stab a person's reputation

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To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.

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To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.

They say he stabbed her, in the throat.

He stabbed a fork into the roast and cut a small slice off.

I stabbed him—in the ass.

I'm slow because someone stabbed me.

He snatched another woman as he spoke and stabbed her.

You said he was stabbed?

And yet, the man who stabbed him was behind bars, and the person who hired him had confessed.

Disoriented, Rhyn glanced down and pulled the syringe out of his thigh, where the angel had stabbed him.

With the last of her energy, she stabbed him through the eye.

That was the summer he had been stabbed and lost his voice – nearly lost his life.

The two quarrelled and the younger stabbed the elder.

Virginius thereupon stabbed her to the heart in the presence of Appius and the people.

Festus found Judaea infested with robbers and the sicarii, who mingled with the crowds at the feasts and stabbed their enemies with the daggers (sicae) from which their name was derived.

He was stabbed in his bedroom by a freedman of Clemens named Stephanus on the 18th of September 96.

Three nights later four followers of the chief of Bobbili crept into the tent of the raja of Vizianagram and stabbed him to death.

The Heruli remained heathen until the overthrow of their kingdom, and retained many striking primitive customs. When threatened with death by disease or old age, they were required to call in an executioner, who stabbed them on the pyre.

Inez was stabbed to death and was buried immediately in the church of Santa Clara.

Pyramus, believing that she had been devoured by the lion, stabbed himself.

He ordered her to be admitted, asked her the names of the deputies then at Caen, and, after writing their names, said, "They shall be soon guillotined," when the young girl, whose name was Charlotte Corday, stabbed him to the heart.

In 1452, however, this powerful earl was invited to Stirling by the king, and, charged with treachery, was stabbed by James and then killed by the attendants.

Early in the morning he stabbed himself to the heart with a dagger which he had concealed under his pillow, and died as his attendants entered the tent.

Unfortunately, she was re-captured and still refusing to honor pagan gods, she was stabbed in the throat and beheaded.

He'd just been stabbed!

A month had passed since he had been stabbed.

I didn't even know about him until Alex was stabbed.

She had a nightmare about Alex being stabbed.

On the 6th of May 1882 the newly appointed chief secretary for Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and his under-secretary, Mr Burke, were stabbed to death in the Phoenix Park at Dublin.

In May 1894 he again became premier and minister of the interior; and he was by President Carnot's side when the latter was stabbed to death at Lyons in June.

In the spring of 1882, he was stabbed by a fanatic during the reception given in the public park at Gifu.

Spartacus, who had stabbed his horse before the battle, fell sword in hand.

As he turned to leave the grand vizier's tent he was stabbed in the back; his head was cut off and sent to Constantinople.

How it chanced we know not; James's horse seems to have run away and thrown him (he was a bad horseman), and the story goes that he was taken into a cottage and stabbed by a priest.

On the 26th of May 946 Edmund's brief but energetic reign came to a tragic conclusion when he was stabbed at the royal villa of Pucklechurch, in Gloucestershire, by an exiled robber named Liofa, who had returned to the court unbidden.

One day, however, while returning from the chase to the town of Chelles, Chilperic was stabbed to death.

In the mosque at Medina he was stabbed by a Kufan workman and died in November 644.

The story that in 882 he was invited to Oxford by Alfred the Great, that he laboured there for many years, became abbot at Malmesbury, and was stabbed to death by his pupils with their "styles," is apparently without any satisfactory foundation, and doubtless refers to some other Johannes.

It is true, however, that he was stabbed, like Marlowe, in a midnight brawl at a tavern.

In 1409 Khalil Shah died; and the story goes that Shadu l-Mulk stabbed herself and was buried with her royal lover at Rai, one of the towns which his grandfather had partly destroyed.

His eldest son, Hamza Mirza, upheld his fortunes to the utmost of his power, reduced the rebel chieftains, and forced the Turks to make peace and retire; but he was stabbed to death by an assassin.

Finding that expostulation had no effect upon his brother, he one day entered his apartment and stabbed him to the heart.

The nobles resisted this infringement of their rights; but their leader, Ferdinand, duke of Braganza, was beheaded for high treason in 1483; in 1484 the king stabbed to death his own brother-in-law, Ferdinand, duke of Vizeu; and 80 other members of the aristocracy were afterwards executed.

When the rout of the Christians was complete, a Servian named Milosh Kabilovich penetrated to Murad's tent on pretence of communicating an important secret to the sultan, and stabbed the conqueror.

Carnot seemed to be arriving at the zenith of popularity, when on the 24th of June 1894, after delivering at a public banquet at Lyons a speech in which he appeared to imply that he nevertheless would not seek re-election, he was stabbed by an Italian anarchist named Caserio and expired almost immediately.

The death of Marat, who was stabbed by Charlotte Corday to avenge the Girondins, gave yet another pretext for terrible measures of repression.

Twenty-one Girondin deputies were next brought to the bar and, with the exception of Valaze who stabbed himself, were beheaded on the last day of October, Madame Roland and other Girondins of note suffered later.

A Dublin tradesman named Field, who had been a juror in a murder trial, was attacked by the same gang and stabbed in many places.

But he wanted to be sole master of Italy; so in order to expel the French barbarians whom he had brought in, he appealed to other barbarians who were far more dangerous Spaniards, Germans and Swissto help him against Louis XII., and stabbed him from behind with the Holy League of 1511.

The third time, finding him asleep, he stabbed him; but Sigurd, before he died, had just strength enough to hurl his sword at the murderer, whom it cut in two.

Lightning stabbed a single brilliant gnarled finger at the earth.

I stabbed him—in the ass.