Stabbing

Definition: Stabbing

Stabbing

Adjective

1. Causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty".

2. As physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain".

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

Date "stabbing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Stabbing

Crosswords: Stabbing

Stop Stabbing Me! Hey (2003)

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Books

• Death at a Dumpster : The Stabbing, the Sex & the Sequel (reference)

• Stabbing of George Harry Storrs (reference)

• Stabbing Stephanie: A Jane Stuart and Winky Mystery (reference)

• Stabbing the Water (reference)

• Stop Stabbing Yourself in the Back: Zapping the Enemy Within (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Stabbing Westward (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Vignettes of ballroom scene, stabbing attempt, and a couple. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

The sharp, stabbing facial pain known as trigeminal neuralgia is commonly treated with carbamazapine or other anticonvulsant drugs or, occasionally, surgery. (references)

The pain is a mixture of sensations, including heat and cold, burning, tingling, numbness, and sharp stabbing and underlying aching pain. The pain is often worse in the extremities - the hands and feet - and is made worse by movement and temperature changes, especially cold temperatures. (references)

Try to be specific about your pain (how severe is it on a scale of 0-10 where 0 is no pain and 10 is the worst pain you can imagine? where is your pain? is the pain throbbing, stabbing, searing? is it continuous or intermittent? what makes it better or worse?) when you tell the doctor about it so you can get the best pain management. (references)

Human Rights

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

The report reviewed prison conditions after violence in the facility following the stabbing of then-Superintendent Latchman in January. (references)

Belize

However, later in 2000 and again in August, inmates were flogged in accordance with prison rules for stabbing a fellow inmate in the neck and for escape. (references)

Sierra Leone

No action reportedly was taken against the members of ECOMOG responsible for the following killings in 2000: The April killing of an ex-SLA soldier; and the January stabbing death of a civilian in a market. (references)

Minorities

Egypt

Similarly, a suspect in the December 2000 stabbing of Father Hezkiyal Ghebriyal, a 75-year-old Coptic Orthodox priest, had not been tried by year's end. (references)

Ghana

A 1999 chieftancy dispute in Teshie that resulted in numerous gunshot wounds, a stabbing, and destruction of property was pending before the Ga traditional council at year's end. (references)

Women

Turkey

In May in Adana, a 14-year old boy was arrested for stabbing his mother to death. (references)

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Expressions using "stabbing": stabbing pain ♦ stabbing weapon. Additional references.

Ending with "stabbing": back-stabbing.

Arabic 

‏طعن وخز (jab, transfixion), ‏طعن بسكين. (various references)

Chinese 

刺中 (Speared, Spearing, stabbed). (various references)

French

guidage des tiges du tubage, agression � l'arme blanche, agression � coup de couteau, élancement (stabbing pain). (various references)

German

erstechend (knifing), erdolchend (stabbing to death). (various references)

Greek 

διαπεραστικός πόνος (stabbing pain). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"קיר�" (biting, insinuation, jab, prick, stab, sting, twinge). (various references)

Hungarian

késelés. (various references)

Italian

guide delle aste di tubaggio. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

刺衝 (stimulation). (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, stab, stimulation, teacher, thalamus, unlicensed prostitute, woodworker). (various references)

Korean 

찌름 (Pinking, Poking, Prick, Pricking, Prodding, Spearing, stinging). (various references)

Manx

seiyagh (goring, propelling, propensity, propulsive, protruding, pushing), saihagh, saih (impale, impalement, plant, stab, thrust, trundle). (various references)

Pig Latin

abbingstay

Russian 

ранить....нанесение раны/. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ubadanje. (various references)

Spanish

puñalada (blow with a dagger, stab, thrust). (various references)

Swedish

stickande (pricking, prickle, prickly), knivskärning. (various references)

Turkish

saplama (jab, stab, sticking into, stud, thrust). (various references)

Ukrainian

пронизливий (acute, argute, brazen, cutting, keen, penetrating, piercing, piping, screaming, searching, shrill, thrilling). (various references)

ictus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stabbing": stabbings. (additional references)

Words ending with "stabbing": backstabbing. (additional references)

Words containing "stabbing": backstabbings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stabbing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sabang, sabbin, sabbing. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: basting, sabbing, tabbing.

-2 letters: basing, bating, gainst, giants, sating, tabbis.

-3 letters: agist, angst, antis, baits, bangs, basin, bints, gains, gaits, giant, gnats, nabis, sabin, saint, satin, staig, stain, stang, sting, tains, tangs, tings.

-4 letters: agin, ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, bags, bait, bang, bani, bans, bast, bats, bias, bibs, bigs, bins, bint, bits, gabs.

+1 letter: stabbings.

+3 letters: babysitting, backbitings.

+4 letters: backstabbing, bearbaitings, bullbaitings, thingamabobs.

+5 letters: backstabbings, boatbuildings.