Synonyms for stabbing
ˈstæb ɪŋstab·bing

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1. stabbing, woundingadjective

   causing physical or especially psychological injury

   "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty"

   Synonyms:
   keen, piercing, knifelike, wounding, cutting, lancinate, lancinating

   Antonyms:
   harmless, dull

2. cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinatingadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   slap-up, cracking, neat, sharp, lancinating, wounding, incisive, cutting, peachy, swell, knifelike, corking, bully, keen, dandy, nifty, smashing, not bad(p), raw, discriminating, bang-up, acute, groovy, lancinate, stinging, edged, exquisite, penetrating, piercing, bleak, great, penetrative

   Antonyms:
   dull, harmless

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1. List of paraphrases for "stabbing":

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1. Ben Carson on Thursday:

   One of the ones where I threw a rock and broke someone's glasses, that occurred when I was maybe about 7 or 8. The stabbing, attempted stabbing incident occurred when I was 13 or 14, the -- what's another incident? trying to hit my mother in the head with a hammer, that was around the same time as the stabbing incident.

2. Prime Minister Tony Abbott:

   ... Kneeling before the death cult flag with a knife in his hand and a machete before him one of those arrested said this: 'I swear to almighty Allah, we will carry out the first implementation for the soldiers of the caliphate in Australia', he went on to say ... 'I swear to almighty Allah, blond people, there is no room for blame between you and us. We only are ... stabbing the kidneys and striking the necks’.

3. Tim Roth:

   I was like, 'Where's all the corruption in the script?' where is all the back-stabbing, the deals? So it was a tough one. I tried to slide in a sense of it, as much as I could get in there.

4. Christopher Labos:

   Many times heart attacks can present with atypical symptoms, sometimes it's a dull ache, sometimes it's burning pain, sometimes it's a sharp stabbing pain, and it can be really tough for patients to know if this is actually their heart or not.

5. Scott C. Holstad:

   Bronchial fix, lung lining expanding again, pounding holes, stabbing me in the back, bacterial traitor, wheezing breath from me, giving me the wonderful opportunity to take panting lessons from Rover.