stab
IPA: stˈæb
noun
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
- (informal) An attempt.
- Criticism.
- (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
- (aviation, slang) The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
- (fandom slang, Pokémon) A 50% damage boost applied when a Pokémon uses a move with the same type as itself (for example, an Electric-type Pokémon using an Electric-type move).
- (industrial relations) Clipping of establishment. [The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.]
verb
- (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
- (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- (transitive, figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- (transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- (transitive) To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
- (transitive, oil industry) To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.
adjective
- (industrial relations) Clipping of established. [Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.]
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Examples of "stab" in Sentences
- In the scuffle, she is stabbed.
- He stabbed the posterior of a pig.
- The woman takes the knife and stabs her.
- They used it to stab the idol in the back.
- During the altercation, the man was stabbed.
- In the struggle, she is accidentally stabbed in the chest.
- Her death is inevitable, the reluctance is in the stabbing.
- The hurt of the stab is over the instant the skin is punctured.
- Are there any other Veterans outraged by McCain stab in the back?
- Rather than being spoken to like a kindergartner. * stab stab stab*
- In a tussle with Johnson, Travis is stabbed in the leg with his own knife.
- Stab wounds to the chest at or below the clavicle may result in wrist drop.
- The mother in law died from the repeated stab wounds and the brutal beating.
- The Democrats will once again stab our troops in the back and vote against funding.
- A taint stab is better because they may be too embarrassed to go to a doctor and die of blood loss/infection.
- Too, of course, the stab from a shorter distance at closer range, point-blank range, so to speak, is likely to be more accurate.
- Over on the 17th green, while Nicklaus waited to take a vain stab at par, Palmer buried his right hand in his slacks and fumbled for a ballmarker long enough to inspire a nervous gallery moan.
- Bang went his stabbing assagai against his shield, and then _stab, stab, stab_, when he turned upon his feet as if upon a pivot, darting his weapon as if he were some fierce creature armed with
- The stab of the hypodermic syringe, different from the manner of administering morphine just under the skin, goes straight down and squarely down into the meat of the arm for half an inch; but the pang of the stab is no severer.
- You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics seems more than a pejorative stab, but rather, an astute observation of the narrow atheist view of reality, their unwillingness to concede science and reason's limitations, and other means of epistemology other than material empiricism.