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stabbing

adjectivenounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈstæb.ɪŋ//

Sharp, intense.

adjective

  1. 1

    Sharp, intense.

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

noun

  1. 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. 1

    Also a form of stabpresent participle and gerund of stab

Forms

plural
stabbings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).