Meaning

• To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.

  "If you stab him in the heart he won't live long enough to retaliate."

• To thrust in a stabbing motion.

  "to stab a dagger into a person"

• To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).

  "He stabbed at my face with the twig but luckily kept missing my eyes."

• To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).

  "The snow from the blizzard was stabbing at my face as I skied down the mountain."

• To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.

  "to stab a person's reputation"

• To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.

• To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.

Meaning

• An incident in which a person is stabbed.

  "A stabbing took place in the alley last night."

Meaning

• (of pain) Sharp, intense.

  "Too much running gives me a stabbing pain in the chest."