'Stabbing' definitions:

Definition of 'stabbing'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty" [syn: stabbing, wounding]
adjective
Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain" [syn: cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating]

Definition of 'Stabbing'

From: GCIDE
  • Stab \Stab\ (st[a^]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stabbed (st[a^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Stabbing.] [Cf. OD. staven to fix, fasten, fr. stave, staff, a staff, rod; akin to G. stab a staff, stick, E. staff; also Gael. stob to stab, as n., a stake, a stub. Cf. Staff.]
  • 1. To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation. [1913 Webster]

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