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STABBING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
Example:
lancinating pain
Synonyms:
cutting; keen; knifelike; lancinate; lancinating; piercing; stabbing
Classified under:
Similar:
sharp (keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Causing physical or especially psychological injury
Example:
wounding and false charges of disloyalty
Synonyms:
stabbing; wounding
Classified under:
Similar:
harmful (causing or capable of causing harm)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb stab
Context examples:
It was a pictorial sheet, and Jo examined the work of art nearest her, idly wondering what fortuitous concatenation of circumstances needed the melodramatic illustration of an Indian in full war costume, tumbling over a precipice with a wolf at his throat, while two infuriated young gentlemen, with unnaturally small feet and big eyes, were stabbing each other close by, and a disheveled female was flying away in the background with her mouth wide open.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
On and on came Alleyne, his jagged point now at his foeman's face, now at his throat, now at his chest, still stabbing and thrusting to pass the line of steel which covered him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
