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stab

[stab]

,verb, stabbed, stab⋅bing, noun

–verb (used with object)

1.	to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.

2.	to thrust, plunge, or jab (a knife, pointed weapon, or the like) into something: He stabbed the knife into the man's chest.

3.	to penetrate sharply or painfully: Their misery stabbed his conscience.

4.	to make a piercing, thrusting, or pointing motion at or in: He stabbed me in the chest with his finger. The speaker stabbed the air in anger.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to thrust with or as if with a knife or other pointed weapon: to stab at an attacker.

6.	to deliver a wound, as with a pointed weapon.

–noun

7.	the act of stabbing.

8.	a thrust or blow with, or as if with, a pointed weapon.

9.	an attempt; try: Make a stab at an answer before giving up.

10.	a wound made by stabbing.

11.	a sudden, brief, and usually painful, sensation: He felt a stab of pain in his foot. A stab of pity ran through her.

—Idioms

12.	stab in the back, an act of treachery.

13.	stab (someone) in the back, to do harm to (someone), esp. to a friend or to a person who is unsuspecting or in a defenseless position.

Origin:
1325–75; (v.) ME (Scots) stabben < ?; (n.) late ME, akin to or deriv. of the v.; cf. Scots stob stub ¹

Synonyms:
1. spear, penetrate, pin, transfix.

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stab (stāb)

v. stabbed, stab·bing, stabs

v. tr.

To pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon.
To plunge (a pointed weapon or instrument) into something.
To make a thrusting or poking motion at or into: stabbed the air with his fingers.

v. intr.

To thrust with or as if with a pointed weapon: stabbed at the food with her fork.
To inflict a wound with or as if with a pointed weapon.

[Middle English stabben.]
stab'ber n.

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