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A kind of wound
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stab
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Word definitions for stab in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "thrust with a pointed weapon," first in Scottish English, apparently a dialectal variant of Scottish stob "to pierce, stab," from stob (n.), perhaps a variant of stub (n.) "stake, nail," but Barnhart finds this "doubtful." Figurative use, of ...
Usage examples of stab.
Seregil ran a second man through, then turned in time to see another stab Alec in the left arm.
Constantine should be rendered incapable of the throne: her emissaries assaulted the sleeping prince, and stabbed their daggers with such violence and precipitation into his eyes as if they meant to execute a mortal sentence.
And then Astasia saw her freeze, stabbing her finger at an upper window.
I only knew of Asye as a name to curse by when I stabbed my thumb, cutting a quill.
He closed on Atrides, spear stabbing his shield right on the boss but the bronze could not drive through, so back he drew to his ranks, dodging death, glancing left and right, fearing a lance would graze his flesh.
She watched Aunty Em repairing shoes, repairing trousers, jabbing the needle so hard that she sometimes stabbed herself with it.
The cruel incongruity of that stab of angelic joy in the midst of the pain of dying is the emotional nexus linking the autobiographical vignette to the nightmarish fantasy.
When he saw Azar standing on the balcony in the moonlight, her hands raised to the heavens, a sharp stab of pain struck him.
I began to shriek, and my lover taking me in his arms to protect me my father stabbed him in the chest.
The Americans like this wild-haired drug dealer who is proven biker material Deniger stabs another biker to death during a knife fight in 1968.
The thief bleated as the lightning fast head stabbed, fishhook teeth clicking shut an inch from her face.
Vigut stabbed the leader with his sword, letting out its lifeblood quickly, but the others poured past, backing Bor against the stone wall of the cave, jostling just out of range of his hooves.
He eliminated the one that was stabbed in the alley, considering him as not part of the pattern since the others had obviously been bushwhacked by rifle fire.
It would hardly do to stab Myrtle Hazard, and shoot Byles Gridley, and strangle Mrs.
Kollberg stabbed the switch that fed the holoview from the Cavea into thousands of induction helmets.