stabbing
Meaning of stabbing
verb
- To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
If you stab him in the heart he won't live long enough to retaliate.
- To thrust in a stabbing motion.
to stab a dagger into a person
- To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
He stabbed at my face with the twig but luckily kept missing my eyes.
- To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
The snow from the blizzard was stabbing at my face as I skied down the mountain.
- To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
to stab a person's reputation
- To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
- An incident in which a person is stabbed.
A stabbing took place in the alley last night.
- (of pain) Sharp, intense.
Too much running gives me a stabbing pain in the chest.
Information about stabbing
- The plural form of stabbing is: stabbings.
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Hyphenation of stabbing
stab-bing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- stabbing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
stabbing synonyms
Meaning wounding:
Meaning cutting:
cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, lancinate, lancinating
Words that rhyme with stabbing
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