Stabbing
WordNet
adjective
(1) 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"
(2) Causing physical or especially psychological injury
"A stabbing remark"
"Wounding and false charges of disloyalty"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- Sharp, intense.
- Too much running gives me a stabbing pain in the chest.
Noun
- An incident in which a person is stabbed.
- A stabbing took place in the alley last night.
- The hospital receives many victims of stabbings.