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stabbing

[ US /ˈstæbɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /stˈæbɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
    piercing criticism
    piercing cold
    a cutting wind
    lancinating pain
    a stabbing pain
    piercing knifelike pains
    keen winds
    knifelike cold
  2. causing physical or especially psychological injury
    wounding and false charges of disloyalty
    a stabbing remark

How To Use stabbing In A Sentence

  • Inhuman hours, back-stabbing competition, abuse by superiors; it's all familiar now.
  • _ Speech of Autolycus: — “Let me have no lying; it becomes none but tradesmen, and they often give us soldiers the lie; but we pay them for it with stamped coin, not stabbing steel; — therefore they do not _give_ us the lie.” Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher
  • There have been reports of recent attempted kidnappings, muggings and stabbings.
  • Three of the Pucelle's heavy guns fired together, their sound almost stunning Sharpe, who was going from gunport to gunport and stabbing at the French with his cutlass. Sharpe's Trafalgar
  • Elena's back-stabbing ways may come back to haunt her on The Vampire Diaries. Which Vampire Diaries Original Is Coming Back with a Vengeance?
  • This marauding gang moved through the streets stabbing people at random.
  • Even three years ago a stabbing was serious but now you could get shanked for dissing someone's trainers or holding a stare a second too long.
  • True, we are expected to moonwalk across the vast waters dividing technology from the masses and tiptoe back on egocentric eggshells, circumventing treacherous misunderstandings and political back-stabbing.
  • I was about to start drawing rhomboids and then stabbing the sharp part of the compass through the paper.
  • There wasn't any way that I was going to be associated with an uncool person for fear that it would have rubbed off on me and then I'd be labelled the backstabbing bitch's boyfriend. Unclebob Diary Entry
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