stab
/stæb/
To pierce or to wound with a tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger; To thrust in a stabbing motion; To recklessly hit with the tip of a object, such as a weapon or finger; To cause a sharp, painful sensation
- he/she/it
- stabs
- past participle
- stabbed
Meanings
- 1
To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger
Tom has been stabbed several times.
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He was stabbed in the back.
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- 2
To thrust in a stabbing motion
- 3
To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at)
- 4
To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at)
- 5
To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slanderrare
- 6
To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plasterrare
- 7
To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wirerare
- 8
To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connectionrare