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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective stabbing has 2 senses

• stabbing(s = adj.all) wounding - causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty"
• stabbing(s = adj.all) cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing - 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"

THESAURUS

stabbing

acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, afflictive, agonizing, astringent, atrocious, bayonetting, biting, bitter, brisk, caustic, corroding, corrosive, cramping, cruel, cutting, distressing, double-edged, edged, escharotic, excruciating, fierce, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harrowing, harsh, hurtful, hurting, impalement, incisive, keen, knifelike, knifing, mordacious, mordant, painful, paroxysmal, penetrating, piercing, poignant, pungent, racking, rigorous, rough, scathing, scorching, severe, sharp, shooting, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, stinging, strident, stringent, tart, the sword, tormenting, torturous, transfixion, trenchant, vehement, violent, virulent, vitriolic, withering

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