Word Finder - stabbing

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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.

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An incident in which a person is stabbed.

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A stabbing took place in the alley last night.

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(of pain) Sharp, intense.

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Too much running gives me a stabbing pain in the chest.

They use a stabbing spear, small throwing spears, and a broad-bladed short sword.

Not even a year had passed since the stabbing, but he had been doing well.

It was the first time Alex had been there since the stabbing – and the first time she had ever seen him look frightened.

It was the first time he had lifted her since the stabbing, and it occurred to her that he might strain his wound.

I wasn't sure stabbing him was enough and we needed to talk.

And whom was she stabbing in the back - the chicken, the fox or Alex?

After he recovered from the stabbing, the Doctor said he had scar tissue and would be susceptible to pneumonia in the injured lung.

The words sliced through her disguise, stabbing into her heart.

Besides the short kris, the Malays use long straight kris with very narrow blades, shorter straight kris of the same form, short broad swords called sundang, long swords of ordinary pattern called pedang, somewhat shorter swords curved like scimitars with curiously carved handles called chenangkas, and short stabbing daggers called tumbok lada.

Over and over she rehashed the stabbing.

Many mammals have, between these two sets, a tooth at each corner of the mouth, longer and more pointed than the others, adapted for tearing or stabbing, or for fixing struggling prey.

Then came Alexia and then the stabbing.

It was the first time Alex had been there since the stabbing – and the first time she had ever seen him look frightened.

When the shells are thus exposed and slightly agape, the stabbing method of opening the shell is more successful.

Dave Webster addressed the haggis, taking particular delight in stabbing a vegetarian haggis.

This was forbidden by Pope Pelagius I.; but in the Greek church the custom survives, the priest even stabbing with " the holy spear " in its right side the human figure planned out of the bread, by way of rehearsing in pantomime the narrative of John xix.

Broken shards stabbing every time you breathe, cutting you up inside.

A kind of sudden stabbing pain into the center of my breast.

Finally, the pain associated with lung problems tends to create a stabbing sensation whenever you cough or take a deep breath.

Like my own shade She followed after me, And from her stabbing, stinging sword No moment was I free.

Upon finding his girlfriend (or ex-girlfriend), Malil grabbed a kitchen knife and began stabbing her.

They must certainly have known that lying and stabbing people in the back does not win you any friends…Sugar.

The Brooklyn stabbing wasn't the only violent incident related to the Notorious premiere.

Amplifying the phrase, "wrong place at the wrong time", the intro movie has Lucas sitting in a diner's bathroom having a seizure and stabbing crazy symbols on his arms.

For example, you have a sword that you can thrust into a ghost's body, stabbing it into the ground.

You'll have things come at you out of nowhere, experiencing feelings of ambush or back stabbing.

Physical abuse may result from hitting, punching, pinching, kicking, biting, shaking, throwing, burning, choking, and stabbing.

Sally's stabbing was directly related to her work with foster child Rocco.

They talked a few more minutes and then ended the call without discussing the stabbing or Lori.

She shook her head and picked up her fork, stabbing it into the eggs.

They quarrelled violently in 1229, at Portsmouth, when the king was with difficulty prevented from stabbing Hubert, because a sufficient supply of ships was not forthcoming for an expedition to France.

There is some reason to believe that this complicated and variable apparatus is used for stabbing the body of another animal and that beginning as a weapon for catching prey it has become modified for hypodermic impregnation and only gradually adapted for insertion into the bursa copulatrix.

The soldier himself does the stabbing, hacking, burning, and pillaging, and always receives orders for these actions from men above him; he himself never gives an order.

After the stabbing, she should realize that living in the country didn't exempt them from crime.