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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How to use stabbing in a sentence?

1. Vicki Rox:

   In the middle of my sleep, I was woken with this excruciating pain like someone was stabbing me in my right ovary.

2. War Victims in Kabul:

   Two patients arrived dead, one died in the emergency room, in the month of August alone, we managed six mass casualties in our hospital, with a total of almost 80 patients. Throughout the year, we have continued to receive gunshot injuries, shrapnel injuries, stabbing injuries, and victims of mine and IED explosions on a daily basis. The country is suffering the consequences of a very long conflict that has undermined its future.

3. 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.

4. Amos Harel:

   Obviously the most common weapon here is knifing and stabbing. The interesting aspect from my view is that it's mostly done by very young people, and that these young people are not afraid to die at all, these youngsters are perfectly aware that most chances are that they will get killed anyway.

5. Rodrigo Duterte:

   At the age of 16, I already killed someone. A real person, a rumble, a stabbing, i was just 16 years old. It was just over a look. How much more now that I am president.