Stab

Definition: Stab

Stab

Noun

1. A thrusting blow with a knife.

Verb

1. Use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death".

2. Stab or pierce.

3. Poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her ribs".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stab" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Stab \Stab\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Stabbed; Stabbing.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

Mining

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Synonyms: Stab

Deterioration

Wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate, cripple, hough, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp.

Inexpedience

Maltreat, abuse; ill-use, ill-treat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul; smite; (scourge); do violence, do harm, do a mischief; stab, pierce, outrage.

Killing

Saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate; stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword.

Opening

Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in.

Crosswords: Stab

German (bar, baton, cane, crook, crosier, dipstick, headquarters, Mace, panel, pole, rail, rod, staff, stave, stick, stump, swab, wand), Swedish (staff).

You know, if you stab a man in the dead of winter, steam will rise up from the wounds. (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Then why was he listening, why does he carry a knife, and why did he try to stab this man? (The Guns of Navarone; writing credit: Alistair MacLean; Carl Foreman)

Rise up in the cafeteria and stab them with your plastic forks! (Pump Up the Volume; writing credit: Allan Moyle)

Burt! You gotta stab it in the brain! (The Return of the Living Dead; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Rudy Ricci)

Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her and find nourishment in the very sight of her? (Hannibal; writing credit: David Mamet)

They stab it with their steely knives, (Hotel California; performing artist: EAGLES)

To stab the brother in the be right back after this (The Remedy (I Won't Worry); performing artist: JASON MRAZ)

TAKE A PEAK AT IT GRAB IT, STAB IT, (Hit Me Off; performing artist: New Edition)

A Stab in the Dark (1992)

Back Stab (1990)

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Books

• A Stab in the Back (reference)

• A Stab in the Dark (reference)

• Stab in the back (reference)

• Stab in the Back (Linford Mystery) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• Stab in the Dark, A [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Final Stab (reference)

• Stab In The Dark - an Interactive Mystery Game (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Beauty Stab [Germany] [EXTRA TRACKS] [IMPORT] (reference)

• Stab the Unstoppable Hero (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Reactions in lysine iron agar stab cultures. Credit: CDC.

[Professor E. von Behring] / Fotograv. Gen. Stab. Lit. Anst. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The mad woman -- for she had become that -- had tried to stab Kathleen. Credit: Library of Congress.

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What, shall I stab him as he sleeps?

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Civil Liberties

Mexico

Jose Ramirez Puente, the host of a popular radio news program in Ciudad Juarez, was found dead in April 2000, in his car with over 30 stab wounds. (references)

Human Rights

Jamaica

There were nine known vigilante killings during the year, compared with eight in 2000. For example, on August 30, the body of a nude man with multiple stab wounds was found tied to a telephone pole in the Papine area of Kingston. (references)

Minorities

Ghana

One man died from a stab wound, and another was injured. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "stab": have a stab at ♦ piercing stab ♦ stab at ♦ stab cell ♦ stab culture ♦ stab in the back ♦ stab smb. in the back ♦ stab to death ♦ stab wound ♦ To stab at. Additional references.

Beginning with "stab": STAB-11, stab-in-the-back, stab-wounds.

Ending with "stab": back-stab.

Albanian

shpoj (bore, broach, drill, drive, flesh, hole, impale, jab, perforate, Pierce, pink, poke, prick, prickle, punch, puncture, run through, Spike, spit, stick, sting), sëmbim (grip, pang, prick, prickle, twinge), vras (assassinate, bag, bruise, bump off, damage, despatch, dispatch, do away with, drop, finish, finish off, get, hurt, injure, kill, Lynch, make away with oneself, murder, poniard, put the sword, puzzle, shoot, slay, stone to death, waste, zap), plagos (gash, Harrow, hurt, wound), i ngul thikën, goditje me thikë, godit (bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clip, clout, conk, deal, defeat, hit, impinge, instigate, joggle, jostle, knock, pound, shock, shove, slam, smite, strike, tap, thrash, thwack, whack), godas (affect, astonish smb., bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clip, clout, conk, defeat, drop, hit, impinge, knock, pound, smite, strike, whack). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غرز (batter, bog, drawing pin, impact, implant, jam, lodge, pike, plant, plunge, poke, push, sink, stick, stick in, thrust), ‏حاول أن يطعن, ‏طعنة سكين, ‏طعنة (cut, hurt, prick, stick, thrust, twinge), ‏طعن (aspersion, impale, jab, jag, knife, libel, pike, put a knife into smb., put off, recourse, remedy, slander, strike, thrust, thrusting, transfix), ‏جرح (break, cut, flesh wound, gash, hurt, incision, injure, injury, lacerate, laceration, lesion, maim, make mischief, maul, pierce, shoot, slash, sting, wing, wound, wounding), ‏أقحم (infix, inset, interject, interpolate, nuzzle, poke, squeeze, stick, stuff, thrust, wedge, work in, wring). (various references)

Bulgarian 

усилие (ado, effort, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, intension, push, stress, struggle, trouble), ръгвам с нож, режа (cut, hack, lop, pare, scissor, slash, slice, snip), опит (attempt, crack, essay, experience, experiment, go, go off, shot, shy, tentative, trial, try, whack, whirl), бодеж (shoot, stitch), бода (offend, prick, prickle, prong, stick), промушване с остро оръжие, промушвам (pass, prong, run, strike), причинявам мъка на, причинявам болка (give smb. gyp, grieve, hurt, pain). (various references)

Chinese 

刺 (assassinate, murder, pierce, prick, sting, thorn, thrust). (various references)

Czech

probodnout (impale, Pierce, Pike, pink, prick, stick, transfix), pomluva (calumny, defamation, obloquy, slander, slur, smear), píchnutí (jab, puncture, sting), bodnutí (jab, prick, sting, stitch, thrust), bodnout (sting), bodná rána (stab wound), bodat, škubnutí (jerk, lurch, pluck, pull, quirk, tug, twinge, twitch, yank). (various references)

Danish

stikke (pick, sting). (various references)

Dutch

steken (enter, insert, lay down, pick, place, put, put down, put in, sting), prikken (pick, sting), priemen (pick, sting), pikken (abide, endure, pick, put up with, sting, tolerate). (various references)

Esperanto

piki (pick, sting). (various references)

Faeroese

prika (pick, sting). (various references)

Farsi 

تیرکشیدن (Pang, Sting, Twinge), سوراخ کردن 1 (Bore, Broach, Delve, Gimlet, Gore, Impale, Notch, Perforate, Punch, Puncture, Scuttle, Slot, Spit, Steek, Stick, Thrust, Transfix), زخم چاقو, زخم زدن (Gash, Hack, Slash, Wound), خنجرزدن (Dirk). (various references)

Finnish

pistää (bite, pick, prick, put, stick, sting). (various references)

French

piquer (stick in, sting, stitch). (various references)

German

stechen (be prickly, beat down, bite, check out, clock in, clock on, cut, engrave, jab, kill, pang, pick, Pierce, prick, prickle, puncture, ring in, run off, spear, stick, sting, take, take the trick, twinge). (various references)

Greek 

μαχαιρώνω (knife). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"קר (drill, hoe, pick). (various references)

Hungarian

szúrt seb, szúró fájdalom (mordant pain, pang, pull, stitch, twinge), szúrás (dig, foin, prick, pricking, puncture, smart, sting, stuck, thrust, tingle, twitch). (various references)

Indonesian

menikam (knife, prod), menghentakkan (thrust), mencamuk, membacok (hack, hit with a sharp edge), camuk. (various references)

Irish

sáigh. (various references)

Italian

pungere (bite, burn, pick, prick, sting, tingle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

穿刺 (puncture), 刺傷 (puncture wound). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ししょう (anthology, cabinetmaker, casualties, difficulty, embezzlement, hindrance, impediment, injuries and deaths, master, obstacle, poetry and prose, puncture wound, stabbing, stimulation, teacher, thalamus, unlicensed prostitute, woodworker), せ�"し (combatant, death in action, former teacher, military history or annals, prehistory, pruning, puncture, soldier, warrior, woman's slender fingers). (various references)

Korean 

찌르기 (Prod, STING). (various references)

Manx

seiy (agitate, bear down, churn, churning, foment, fomentation, gore, gore of bull, knife, litter, lunge, mix up, mixing, mixture, muddy; pushing, prod, propel, propulsion, protrusion, push, shove, shoving, stick, stir, stir up, thrust, tilt, tilting, transfix), saih (impale, impalement, plant, stabbing, thrust, trundle). (various references)

Norwegian

stikke (jab, pick, sting). (various references)

Pig Latin

abstay

Portuguese

trespassar (spit, thrust, transfix, transpierce), punhalada (jab), picar (bite, chop, goad, hack, hag, hash, jab, mince, pick, pique, point, prick, prickle, punch, spall, stick, sting, swot, tingle), perfurar (bore, drill, drive, perforate, pierce, prong, punch, puncture, tap), ofender (abuse, affront, aggrieve, bespatter, bruise, despite, dishonor, dishonour, displease, grieve, harm, huff, hurt, injure, insult, miscall, offend, outrage, shock), magoar (annoy, bruise, grieve, huff, hurt, pain, vex, weigh, worry), injuriar (abuse, attack, insult, inveigh, knock about, knock around, miscall, offend, outrage, revile, slander, vituperate), furar (bore, boring, broach, drill, fall through, hole, jab, perforate, pierce, prick, punch, puncture, spit, tap, thrust), facada, estocada (lunge, prod, push, thrust), apunhalar (dirk, jab, poniard, stick), aferroar (pick, sting). (various references)

Romanian

strãpunge (Gore, penetrate, perforate, Pierce, pin, pink, puncture, Ray, riddle, transfix, tunnel), vârî (Bob, creep, crib, dab, dig, dip, drive, duck, engraft in, immerse, impress, introduce, involve, jab, Lodge, pick, poke, pull up, put in, stick, Stow, stuff, thrust, tuck), ranã adâncã (gash), ranã (cut, gall, hurt, injury, raw, scar, slash, sore, wound), rãni (bring down, cut, gash, hurt, injure, offend, scathe, scotch, sting, wound, wrong), loviturã de pumn (fisticuff, punch), loviturã de cuţit, loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, cant, clap, clip, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, smash, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), junghi (pang, stitch, twinge), cãuta sã facã rãu cuiva, înjunghia (let daylight into, pink, poniard, thrust). (various references)

Russian 

удар кинжалом, ранить кинжалом, ранить ножом, кольнуть (prick, thrust), колотая рана, заколоть (slaughter). (various references)

Scottish

stob (a stake, fix in the ground, prickle, thorn, thrust), bruideadh (thrust), bruid, bruidich. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

udarac nožem, ubosti (prick, sting, thrust in), ubodna rana, ubod (jab, lunge, prick, sting, thrust), proburaziti (gore, gride), probosti (jab, lance, run through, transfix, transpierce), pokušaj (assay, attempt, bid, essay, try), izdati nekoga, izdaja (betrayal, sellout, treachery, treason), izbosti (pierce, prick off). (various references)

Spanish

picar (bite, chop, cut up, dive, goad, grind, harass, hash, itch, jab, key in, lip, mince, needle, nibble, nip, pick, ping, pink, pique, pit, pound, prick, prickle, prod, punch, smart, stick, sting), apuñalar (poniard). (various references)

Swedish

sticka (clear off, clear out, dig, hook it, jab, knit, knitting needle, knitting-needle, Lam, light out, match, pick, prick, prickle, prod, scoot, scram, spill, splinter, split, stick, sting, take french leave, thrust, tingle, twinge, vamoose, welsh), stöta (barge, bruise, bump, butt, dig, hurt, hurtle, hustle, impact, impinge, jab, knock, offend, outrage, pestle, pound, push, put, shove, strike, thrust), dolkstöt (dagger-thrust). (various references)

Thai

แทง (gore, jab, lancinate, lunge, stick), การแทง (jab, lunge), การวิจาร�"์อย่างรุนแรง, ความเจ็บปว�"อย่างกะทันหัน, ความพยายาม (attempt, dry run, endeavor, endeavour, push). (various references)

Turkish

saplanma, saplamak (dig into, drive, jab, Lodge, pink, plunge, run through, stick, stick into, strike in, strike inwards, thrust), saplama (jab, stabbing, sticking into, stud, thrust), ihanet etmek (betray, cheat, deceive, double cross, give the game away, play false, play smb. false, rat, sell smb. down the river, sell the pass, set down, stab smb. in the back, two time), hançerlemek (poniard), delmek (bore, broach, dig into, dig through, drill, hole, make a hole in, perforate, pick, Pierce, pink, prick, puncture, ream, ream out, Spike, stave in, stick), bıçaklamak (carve up, chive, knife, stick), bıçaklama, bıçak yarası (gash, knife wound), bıçak gibi saplanma. (various references)

Turkmen 

pyзaklamak (knife), naяzalamak (prick). (various references)

Ukrainian

устромляти, удар (bat, beat, biff, bobbing, buffet, bunt, cant, chop, clap, cracker, hit, impact, impingement, impulsion, jolt, kick, knock, onslaught, percussion, pick, push, put, shock, shot, smite, spat, strike, stroke, tick, tilt, wap), раптовий гострий біль, колота рана, завдавати удару, поранити (hurt, wound). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nói xấu sau lưng đòn ngầm, sự l� m thử điều vu khống, sự đâm bằng dao găm, vết thương đâm bằng dao găm, nhát đâm sau lưng. (various references)

Welsh

trywanu (pierce, transfix), picellu (spear), gwanu (pierce), brathu (bite, sting, wound), brath (bite, sting, wound). (various references)

fode, foderant, foderat, fodere, foderent, foderit, foderunt, fodi, fodiam, fodiatur, fodies, fodietur, fodisti, fodit, fossa, fossae, fossam, fossas, fossis, icamian, ictu, ictum, ictus, perforabis, perforabit, perforabitque, perforabunt, perforari, perforatur, treicientes. (various references)

ofstician, ofstingan. (various references)

bicken. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stab": stabbed, stabber, stabbers, stabbing, stabbings, stabile, stabiles, stabilities, stability, stabilization, stabilizations, stabilize, stabilized, stabilizer, stabilizers, stabilizes, stabilizing, stable, stabled, stableman, stablemate, stablemates, stablemen, stableness, stablenesses, stabler, stablers, stables, stablest, stabling, stablings, stablish, stablished, stablishes, stablishing, stablishment, stablishments, stably, stabs. (additional references)

Words ending with "stab": backstab. (additional references)

Words containing "stab": adjustabilities, adjustability, adjustable, antiestablishment, backstabbed, backstabber, backstabbers, backstabbing, backstabbings, backstabs, castabilities, castability, castable, constable, constables, constabularies, constabulary, contestable, contrastable, destabilization, destabilizations, destabilize, destabilized, destabilizes, destabilizing, detestable, detestableness, detestablenesses, detestably, disestablish, disestablished, disestablishes, disestablishing, disestablishment, disestablishmentarian, disestablishmentarians, disestablishments, establish, establishable, established, establisher, establishers, establishes, establishing, establishment, establishmentarian, establishmentarianism, establishmentarianisms, establishmentarians, establishments, forecastable. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stab" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ctab, estab, Ostabat, saab, sab, Satb, satba, Sattb, Sbat, Schaub, sgab, Shtib, Siab, skab, snab, snabb, soab, Spab, Ssab, sta, staba, Stabb, stabe, staf, staq, starb, stau, staub, stax, staz, stda, steb, Steib, stib, stibe, stibz, stiv, stob, stomb, stuba, stube, stuv, styb, Ts'ao, Tsibu, Ystad. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bast, bats, tabs.

-1 letter: abs, bas, bat, sab, sat, tab, tas.

-2 letters: ab, as, at, ba, ta.

+1 letter: abets, abuts, bahts, baits, baste, basts, bates, baths, batts, beast, beats, betas, blast, blats, boast, boats, botas, brats, sabot, stabs, tabes, tabus, tsuba, tubas.

+2 letters: abates, abatis, abbots, ablest, aborts, absent, ambits, barest, basalt, basest, basket, basset, basted, baster, bastes, bathes, bathos, batiks, batons, beasts, beauts, bettas, biotas, blasts, blasty, bleats, bloats, boarts, boasts, bracts, brants, breast, bypast, habits, jabots, oblast, rabats, sabbat, sabots, sacbut, sagbut, stable, stably, tabbis, tabers, tablas, tables, taboos, tabors, tabuns, tibias.