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Stab
STAB, v.t. [This word contains the elements, and is probably from the primary sense, of the L., to point or prick, and a multitude of others in many languages. The radical sense is to thrust; but I know not to what oriental roots they are allied.]
1. To pierce with a pointed weapon; as, to be stabbed by a dagger or a spear; to stab fish or eels.
2. To wound mischievously or mortally; to kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument.
3. To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab reputation.
STAB, v.i.
1. To give a wound with a pointed weapon.
None shall dare with shortend sword to stab in closer war.
2. To give a mortal wound.
He speaks poniards, and every word stabs.
To stab at, to offer a stab; to thrust a pointed weapon at.
STAB, n.
1. The thrust of a pointed weapon.
2. A wound with a sharp pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab of an assassin.
3. An injury given in the dark; a sly mischief; as a stab given to character.
stab appears in definitions for these words:
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Amen Anchor Augean Avenor Barmy Bayonet Broom Charact Colt Confidence Confirmatory Constable Constancy Cord Cow-house Crib Dagger Dirk Dungfork Ecurie Eelspear Equery Establish Figurability Firm Firming Firmness Fishspear Fix Fixation Fixed Fixedness Fixture Fixure Floor Footing Gore Gored Goring Grange Grease Gromwell Hobnob Horseboy Hostry Incendiary Indissoluble Infirm Instability Job Lantern Litter Livery-stable Manure Miserably Niter Pageant Pass Pave Pertusion Pink Pledge Poach Poniard Proof Provost Purge Put Reliance Run Saltpeter Seal Shake Shippen Spear Speet Stab Stabber Stabbing Stabiliment Stabilitate Stability Stable Stable-boy Stable-man Stabled Stableness Stabling Stablish Stably Staff Stall Stall-fed Stall-feed Stall-feeding Stamen Stick Stoccado Sure Surety Thatch Thrust Thruster Tre Unfirm Unstable Upon Yea
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