Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stab"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stab \Stab\, v. i.
1. To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to
thrust with a pointed weapon.
None shall dare With shortened sword to stab in
closer war. --Dryden.
2. To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.
She speaks poniards, and every word stabs. --Shak.
{To stab at}, to offer or threaten to stab; to thrust a
pointed weapon at.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stab \Stab\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stabbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Stabbing}.] [Cf. OD. staven to fix, fasten, fr. stave,
staff, a staff, rod; akin to G. stab a staff, stick, E.
staff; also Gael. stob to stab, as n., a stake, a stub. Cf.
{Staff}.]
1. 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.
2. Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or
slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stab \Stab\, n.
1. The thrust of a pointed weapon.
2. A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the
stab an assassin. --Shak.
3. Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab
given to character.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
stab
n : a thrusting blow with a knife [syn: {thrust}, {knife thrust}]
v 1: use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death" [syn: {knife}]
2: stab or pierce [syn: {jab}]
3: poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her
ribs" [syn: {jab}, {prod}, {poke}, {dig}]
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