stabbing
sta bing
- v use a knife on
- v stab or pierce
- v poke or thrust abruptly
- s causing physical or especially psychological injury
a stabbing remark - s painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
a stabbing pain
- Last month she was sentenced to death by firing squad for stabbing her employer after he allegedly raped her.
- Just seconds earlier, I had heard the first bloodcurdling yell--"They're stabbing people back here!" My partner had gone to the back to take on the attackers, and I had drawn my .
- The former dean of the Geneva bar, a power in cantonal politics, a man of wealth and breeding, Jaccoud stood accused of a brutal and almost senseless murder: shooting and stabbing .