Definitions for stabbing

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stabbing stab·bing

Spelling: [stab-ing]

IPA: /ˈstæb ɪŋ/

Stabbing is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 239 anagrams from letters in stabbing (abbginst).

Definitions for stabbing

noun

1. the act of stabbing.
2. a thrust or blow with, or as if with, a pointed weapon.
3. an attempt; try:
4. a wound made by stabbing.
5. a sudden, brief, and usually painful, sensation:

Idioms

1. a stab in the back, an act of treachery.
2. stab (someone) in the back, to do harm to (someone), especially to a friend or to a person who is unsuspecting or in a defenseless position.

adjective

1. penetrating; piercing:
2. emotionally wounding:
3. incisive or trenchant:

verb (used with object)

1. to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon:
2. to thrust, plunge, or jab (a knife, pointed weapon, or the like) into something:
3. to penetrate sharply or painfully:
4. to make a piercing, thrusting, or pointing motion at or in:

verb (used without object)

1. to thrust with or as if with a knife or other pointed weapon:
2. to deliver a wound, as with a pointed weapon.

Origin of stabbing

First recorded in 1590-1600; stab + -ing²

Examples for stabbing

stabbing with the pen, therefore, is not merely a metaphorical expression.

Some of them tried it, but the Indians swam after them, stabbing and pulling them under.

He looked at her inquiringly, caught the direction of her stabbing finger.

Of course, to the family of a victim, one stabbing death is too many.

Are you the kind of criminal who runs down the beach at night wielding a knife and stabbing every woman you pass?

French officials were already on edge after a series of apparently unconnected attacks, including the stabbing of police officers.

The girl pulled the sheets from the machine and sorted them while I was stabbing the buzzer.

She could scratch, kick, and bite—and stab too; but for stabbing she wanted a knife.

Forty-five minutes were estimated to have elapsed from the time the stabbing began until the killer left.

He spoke of surviving a stabbing in 1958 when a woman attacked him at a book-signing.