Definition of Stab

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Definition of Stab

Stab

To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.

Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.

To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.

To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.

The thrust of a pointed weapon.

A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.

Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.

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Stab Quotations

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
Earl Nightingale

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
Herman Melville

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
Alan Alda

Real friends stab you in the front.
Jonathan Davis

Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.
Bubba Sparxxx

I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that?
Kyan Douglas

We've had drive-by shootings. I've been spat on, slapped, shot at. One guy tried to stab me with a broken beer bottle. But the way we look at it, if people do the worst they can, we'll still wake up in glory.
Troy Perry

The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink.
Reggie White

Stab Translations

stab in Danish is stikke
stab in Dutch is priemen, prikken, steken, pikken
stab in French is piquer
stab in German is ersteche, stechen
stab in Norwegian is stikke

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