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stabbing
adjective
1 stabbing
Causing physical or especially psychological injury:
— A stabbing remark.
synonym: wounding.
2 stabbing
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stab
noun
1 stab
A sudden sharp feeling:
— She felt a stab of excitement.
synonyms: pang, twinge.
2 stab
A strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument:
— One strong stab to the heart killed him.
synonyms: knife thrust, thrust.
Dutch: messteek, steek
Polish: pchnięcie
3 stab
Informal words for any attempt or effort:
— He took a stab at forecasting.
synonym: shot.
Dutch: steek
verb
1 stab
Use a knife on.
synonym: knife.
Roget 649:
be hurtful
etc.
adj.;
cause evil,
produce evil,
inflict evil,
work evil,
do evil
etc.
619;
damnify†,
endamage†,
hurt,
harm;
injure
etc.
(damage)
659;
pain
etc.
830.
wrong,
aggrieve,
oppress,
persecute;
trample upon,
tread upon,
bear hard upon,
put upon;
overburden;
weigh down,
weigh heavy on;
victimize;
run down;
molest
etc.
830.
maltreat,
abuse;
ill-use,
ill-treat;
buffet,
bruise,
scratch,
maul;
smite
etc.
(scourge)
972;
do violence,
do harm,
do a mischief;
stab,
pierce,
outrage.
do mischief,
make mischief;
bring into trouble.
destroy
etc.
162.
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Roget 260:
open,
ope†,
gape,
yawn,
bilge;
fly open.
perforate,
pierce,
empierce†,
tap,
bore,
drill;
mine
etc.
(scoop out)
252;
tunnel;
transpierce†,
transfix;
enfilade,
impale,
spike,
spear,
gore,
spit,
stab,
pink,
puncture,
lance,
stick,
prick,
riddle,
punch;
stave in.
cut a passage through;
make way for,
make room for.
uncover,
unclose,
unrip†;
lay open,
cut open,
rip open,
throw open,
pop open,
blow open,
pry open,
tear open,
pull open.
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Roget 361:
kill,
put to death,
slay,
shed blood;
murder,
assassinate,
butcher,
slaughter,
victimize,
immolate;
massacre;
take away life,
deprive of life;
make away with,
put an end to;
despatch,
dispatch;
burke,
settle,
do for.
strangle,
garrote,
hang,
throttle,
choke,
stifle,
suffocate,
stop the breath,
smother,
asphyxiate,
drown.
saber;
cut down,
cut to pieces,
cut the throat;
jugulate†;
stab,
run through the body,
bayonet,
eviscerate;
put to the sword,
put to the edge of the sword.
shoot dead;
blow one's brains out;
brain,
knock on the head;
stone,
lapidate†;
give a deathblow;
deal a deathblow;
give a quietus,
give a coupe de grace.
behead,
bowstring,
electrocute,
gas
etc.
(execute)
972.
hunt,
shoot
etc.
n..
cut off,
nip in the bud,
launch into eternity,
send to one's last account,
sign one's death warrant,
strike the death knell of.
give no quarter,
pour out blood like water;
decimate;
run amuck;
wade knee deep in blood,
imbrue one's hands in blood.
die a violent death,
welter in one's blood;
dash out one's brains,
blow out one's brains;
commit suicide;
kill oneself,
make away with oneself,
put an end to oneself,
put an end to it all.
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Dutch: toesteken
2 stab
Stab or pierce.
synonym: jab.
Dutch: priemen, prikken, steken
3 stab
adjective
Roget 659:
unimproved
etc.
(improve)
etc.
658;
deteriorated
etc.
v.;
altered,
altered for the worse;
injured
etc.
v.;
sprung;
withering,
spoiling
etc.
v.;
on the wane,
on the decline;
tabid†;
degenerate;
marescent†;
worse;
the worse for,
all the worse for;
out of repair,
out of tune;
imperfect
etc.
651;
the worse for wear;
battered;
weathered,
weather-beaten;
stale,
passe,
shaken,
dilapidated,
frayed,
faded,
wilted,
shabby,
secondhand,
threadbare;
worn,
worn to a thread,
worn to a shadow,
worn to the stump,
worn to rags;
reduced,
reduced to a skeleton;
far gone;
tacky [U.S.].
decayed
etc.
v.;
moth-eaten,
worm-eaten;
mildewed,
rusty,
moldy,
spotted,
seedy,
time-worn,
moss-grown;
discolored;
effete,
wasted,
crumbling,
moldering,
rotten,
cankered,
blighted,
tainted;
depraved
etc.
(vicious)
945;
decrepid†,
decrepit;
broke,
busted,
broken,
out of commission,
hors de combat [Fr.],
out of action,
broken down;
done,
done for,
done up;
worn out,
used up,
finished;
beyond saving,
fit for the dust hole,
fit for the wastepaper basket,
past work
etc.
(useless)
645.
at a low ebb,
in a bad way,
on one's last legs;
undermined,
deciduous;
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162;
tottering
etc.
(dangerous)
665;
past cure
etc.
(hopeless)
859;
fatigued
etc.
688;
retrograde
etc.
(retrogressive)
283;
deleterious
etc.
649.
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