stabbing
adjective
1. causing physical or especially psychological injury
- a stabbing remark
Similar word(s): harmful, wounding
2. painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
- a stabbing pain
Similar word(s): sharp, cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing
Sentences with stabbing as an adjective:
- Too much running gives me a stabbing pain in the chest.
noun
1. An incident in which a person is stabbed.
- A stabbing took place in the alley last night.
- The hospital receives many victims of stabbings.
verb
1. present participle of stab