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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
stabbing
    adj 1: causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a
           stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of
           disloyalty" [syn: stabbing, wounding]
    2: 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]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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