stabs in English

noun

1

a thrust with a knife or other pointed weapon.

multiple stab wounds

synonyms: lunge, thrust, jab, poke, prod, dig, punch

2

an attempt to do (something).

Meredith made a feeble stab at joining in

synonyms: attempt, try, effort, endeavor, guess, go, shot, crack, bash, whack, essay

verb

1

(of a person) thrust a knife or other pointed weapon into (someone) so as to wound or kill.

he stabbed him in the stomach

synonyms: knife, run through, skewer, spear, bayonet, gore, spike, stick, impale, transfix, pierce, prick, puncture, transpierce

noun

knife wound, puncture, incision, prick, cut, perforation
lunge, thrust, jab, poke, prod, dig, punch
twinge, pang, throb, spasm, cramp, dart, prick, flash, thrill
attempt, try, effort, endeavor, guess, go, shot, crack, bash, whack, essay
twinge, pang
shot
thrust

verb

knife, lunge, poke, jab
knife, run through, skewer, spear, bayonet, gore, spike, stick, impale, transfix, pierce, prick, puncture, transpierce
lunge, thrust, jab, poke, prod, dig
knife
poke, dig, jab, prod
jab

Use "stabs" in a sentence

1. Then the cuts the internal mutilation, stabs.

2. Accusing Leonella of slandering her mistress, he stabs her.

3. The Tate has made four stabs at presenting its collection.

4. She tried to thrust back the little stabs of home - sickness.

5. The bill stabs downward and then emerges Bedaubed with damp soil and grasping a small earthworm.

6. This unsub displays a great amount of anger, stabs his victims repeatedly, even after they're dead.

7. Cultures submitted to MSCL for deposit must be in the form of agar stabs (slants) or lyophilized.

8. The pain it causes in the form of poverty, sickness, ignorance, unemployment, and discrimination stabs to the very heart.

9. "Affliction" portrays the nuanced small moments and the glaringly obvious stabs of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, in excruciating clarity

10. "Affliction" portrays the nuanced small moments and the glaringly obvious stabs of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, in excruciating clarity

11. Brainsick is a driving tech trance with lovely stabs, massive breakdown and big drops that would heat up the dance floor

12. Verse 18 of that same chapter of Proverbs warns against “speaking thoughtlessly as with the stabs of a sword.”

13. The person was killed by stabs in the heart, but they just deposited the knife by putting it through one of the eyeballs.

14. And what are name-calling, shouting, constant criticism, and degrading insults if not the stabs that cause deep emotional wounds?

15. 4 The idea of personal worthlessness stabs at the heart of the truth of God’s Word, the teaching of the ransom.

16. Well, w-w-when an alligator stabs a ref, no one is thinking about the inherent limitations of their own perceptual systems.

17. Well...you are basically saying that Pakistan is a back stabbing cesspool of a country which takes American money and then stabs it in the back.

18. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End gets a sin Absolved because of how funny the scene where the dying Norrington stabs Davy Jones in the shoulder is

19. Definition: humiliating or insulting language or treatment Example: "Of an impulsive and passionate nature, she had fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public Contumely, wreaking itself in every variety of insult."

20. I Blagueur - Balla? No!… / Ti ‘D Bale? (Dualismo Sound, 2019) “Balla? No!…” is the standard Italian version, starting on sweltering chord stabs and a stomping, almost industrially-tinged disco beat, with huge snare blasts, gated reverb decay, and hi-hats adding a freaky shuffle.

21. Bloodiness Sentence Examples His Bloodiness knows no bounds in part 2 and tamburlaine - moved in part by grief over the death of his wife - first stabs to death one son for being a coward, then kills every man and woman and child in a town that refuses to surrender and finally mocks 0 0