stab
捅一捅,戳,捅捅,捅破
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Definitions
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stabbed, stab·bing.
- : to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
- : to thrust, plunge, or jab into something: He stabbed the knife into the man's chest.
- : to penetrate sharply or painfully: Their misery stabbed his conscience.
- : to make a piercing, thrusting, or pointing motion at or in: He stabbed me in the chest with his finger.The speaker stabbed the air in anger.
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stabbed, stab·bing.
- : to thrust with or as if with a knife or other pointed weapon: to stab at an attacker.
- : to deliver a wound, as with a pointed weapon.
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- : the act of stabbing.
- : a thrust or blow with, or as if with, a pointed weapon.
- : an attempt; try; Make a stab at an answer before giving up.
- : a wound made by stabbing.
- : a sudden, brief, and usually painful, sensation: He felt a stab of pain in his foot.A stab of pity ran through her.
Phrases
- stab in the back, a
- make a stab at
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Chromecast with Google TVWith the new $50 Chromecast, Google has taken a fresh stab at organizing the hot mess of watching TV.
Gloria said he is “rooting for Measure C” but will advocate taking another stab at funding a Convention Center expansion if the initiative dies – and perhaps add a pitch to use city hotel taxes to support parks.
Even earlier stabs might have been made in private, but “when you get an answer you can’t make sense of, you don’t publish it,” noted Aephraim Steinberg, a physicist at the University of Toronto.
“Let me take a stab at rewriting this,” Besser recalled Emanuel saying as he began scribbling on a pad.
Her sister, Diana Jiménez López, on Tuesday told the Washington Blade during a telephone interview from California that Huerta had stab wounds throughout her body.
Then stab her to death and bring me back her lungs and liver as proof of your deed.
She ran, but he caught her, and began to stab her in the middle of the street.
He takes another stab at articulating what the word might mean.
This prompts Sarah Lynn to stab herself with a Confederate bayonet letter-opener, causing a geyser of blood.
Williams comes up dry on Pete Wilson, though he makes a stab at doing Pete Rose.
The Esperanza was still smothered, and a stab of pity went through Joe's heart as he saw his shipmate wallowing.
Her cries attracted her attendants, and Murray was ordered by the indignant queen to stab the young madman dead then and there.
And because Bud had a sore spot in his own heart, Bud felt a quick stab of understanding and sympathy.
Seven or eight days ago, a man having received behind the Arsenal a stab with a knife, I sewed up the wound, and cured him.
There were so many things to remind him of her—a sudden memory would catch him unawares, and stab him like a knife.