stab

Significat (English)

Noun

1. An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
2. A wound made by stabbing.
3. Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
4. (informal) An attempt.
5. Criticism.
6. A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
7. A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.

Verb

1. To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
2. To thrust in a stabbing motion.
3. To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
4. To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
5. To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
6. To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
7. To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
8. To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.

Adj

Clipping of established.

Synonyms

pierce

prick

thrust

sting

jab

spear

poke

knife

🔪

puncture

cut

prod

wound

stick

penetrate

hurt

stick in

bite

twinge

stabbing

lunge

stitch

lesion

perforate

laceration

strike

stab wound

thorn

bore

damage

skewer

kill

🔪🩸👤

injury

thrust into

gore

bruise

gash

permeate

pervade

dig

pass

impale

slash

pang

shot

probe

sink in

enter

puncture wound

push

drive in

knife thrust

try

job

scar

attempt

stick on

nygma

assassinate

quilt

scratch

insert

injure

pique

blow

hit

pricking

attack

👊

spit

shoot

pick

⛏️

stick into

punch

👊

quarter

ram

🐏

reap

reduce

resect

retrench

sacrifice

scissor

seeking

set

sever

shear

sheathe

shove

sink

slice

slit

snip

spay

spike

splinter

stab in the back

stiletto

stinging

stir

stuff

tease

throb

tickle

pare down

shoot through

transfix

traverse

trim

cause pain

cut to

operate on

slice up

snip off

push into

severe criticism

plant one’s feet

lancinate

abuse

crack

pain

stab and strike

poke in

4

5

be pricked

3

pierce gore

administer injection

accident

thorn damage

ache

arrow

beat

bid

break through

burn

business

carve

cast

casualty

catch

chuck

cleave

company

cram

cross

cut away

cut back

cut out

cuts

cut up

dab

dart

🎯

dirk

disappear

disarticulate

dismember

down

edit

edit out

endeavour

enterprise

essay

establishment

firm

fishbone

fix

fling

foray

forge

go

goading

gride

hack

hook

🪝

incision

inject

irritate

jam

joint

kick

latch

mow

murder

nip off

nudge

offer

operation

pare

peck

pin

pinch

pin down

pink

play

plunge

pole

pound

💷

prong

protrude

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/stæb/

Etimologia (English)

Cognate with escocès: stob

Cognate with anglès antic: stybb

Cognate with neerlandès mitjà: stobbe

In summary

First attested in Scottish English (compare Scots stob, stobbe, stabb (“a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon”)), from Middle English stabbe (“a stab”), probably a variant of Middle English stob, stub, stubbe (“pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump”), from Old Norse stobbi, stubbi, cognate with Old English stybb. Cognate with Middle Dutch stobbe.
Supposed by some to derive from Scottish Gaelic stob (“to prick, to prod, to push, to thrust”); supposed by others to be from a Scots word.