Antonyms for jab
dʒæbjab

Matched Categories

1. • Gesture
   • Punch
   • Strike
   • Thrust

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1. jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrust, thrustingnoun

   a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)

   "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist"

   Synonyms:
   jabbing, punch, stab, dig, drive, clout, garget, thrust, sack, driving force, carrier bag, knife thrust, slug, dawdler, lick, poke, paper bag, lagger, biff, pigeon berry, thrusting, drone, trailer, laggard, scoke, push, poking

2. jabnoun

   a quick short straight punch

   Synonyms:
   dig, poking, thrust, poke, jabbing, thrusting

3. dig, jabverb

   the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow

   "she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs"

   Synonyms:
   barb, thrust, excavation, jabbing, slam, shot, thrusting, poking, poke, shaft, archeological site, digging, jibe, gibe, dig

4. jab, prod, stab, poke, digverb

   poke or thrust abruptly

   "he jabbed his finger into her ribs"

   Synonyms:
   compass, nose, incite, toil, pry, grind, dig, drudge, moil, dig up, poke, horn in, delve, nudge, grasp, prod, egg on, thump, cut into, knife, travail, labour, get the picture, hollow, stab, apprehend, pound, comprehend, turn over, excavate, savvy, labor, grok, intrude, poke at, dig out

5. jabverb

   strike or punch with quick and short blows

   Synonyms:
   dig, prod, stab, poke

6. stab, jabverb

   stab or pierce

   "he jabbed the piece of meat with his pocket knife"

   Synonyms:
   prod, dig, knife, poke, stab

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1. jabnoun

   Synonyms:
   thrust, punch, dig

How to use jab in a sentence?

1. David Teuscher:

   It’s his punching shoulder, not his jab shoulder, but either one you have to be able to hit with both, which means you have to be able to extend it out there.

2. Joe Biden:

   Joe Biden said. Joe Biden spoke only for about 10 minutes but took a jab at rival Sen. Senator Sanders, who has staked Joe Biden campaign on the ability to bring more Americans -- particularly young people -- out in droves to the polls. Senator Sanders likes to say hell need a record turnout to defeat Donald Trump. Hes right, but were the campaign thats going to do that record turnout.

3. Asher Salmon:

   We have introduced schemes where you can not enter cultural venues, clubs, bars without getting tested if you've not had the jab, a secondary advantage of the passport, alongside reducing the rate of infection, is to encourage young people to be vaccinated.

4. Fox Business:

   Yesterday I went and got the jab at CVS, the place was dead.

5. Stanislas Duquesnoy:

   JAB is now moving into a broader drinks business. It's interesting because the strategies are diverging a bit.

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