stabbing

Pluralstabbings

1. 1
   nouncountable

   An attack in which one person hurts another with a knife or sharp object.

   Police are investigating a stabbing outside the train station.

   There were two stabbings in the city last weekend.

   Similarknifing

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of stab. Use this form for the action as it is happening.

   He was stabbing at the box with a screwdriver.

   The cook kept stabbing the potatoes to see if they were soft.

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3. 3
   adjective

   Describes a sudden, sharp pain that feels like a poke from something pointed.

   Like a quick poke from a sharp pin.

   She felt a stabbing pain in her side after running.

   A stabbing ache shot through his knee when he stood up.

   Similarsharp, piercing, shooting, acute, searing

   Oppositedull, mild

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