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stab

noun as in piercing cut

noun as in attempt

verb as in puncture, pierce with sharp, pointed object

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Chromecast with Google TVWith the new $50 Chromecast, Google has taken a fresh stab at organizing the hot mess of watching TV.

Gloria said he is “rooting for Measure C” but will advocate taking another stab at funding a Convention Center expansion if the initiative dies – and perhaps add a pitch to use city hotel taxes to support parks.

Even earlier stabs might have been made in private, but “when you get an answer you can’t make sense of, you don’t publish it,” noted Aephraim Steinberg, a physicist at the University of Toronto.

“Let me take a stab at rewriting this,” Besser recalled Emanuel saying as he began scribbling on a pad.

Her sister, Diana Jiménez López, on Tuesday told the Washington Blade during a telephone interview from California that Huerta had stab wounds throughout her body.

Then stab her to death and bring me back her lungs and liver as proof of your deed.

She ran, but he caught her, and began to stab her in the middle of the street.

He takes another stab at articulating what the word might mean.

This prompts Sarah Lynn to stab herself with a Confederate bayonet letter-opener, causing a geyser of blood.

Williams comes up dry on Pete Wilson, though he makes a stab at doing Pete Rose.

The Esperanza was still smothered, and a stab of pity went through Joe's heart as he saw his shipmate wallowing.

Her cries attracted her attendants, and Murray was ordered by the indignant queen to stab the young madman dead then and there.

And because Bud had a sore spot in his own heart, Bud felt a quick stab of understanding and sympathy.

Seven or eight days ago, a man having received behind the Arsenal a stab with a knife, I sewed up the wound, and cured him.

There were so many things to remind him of her—a sudden memory would catch him unawares, and stab him like a knife.

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On this page you'll find 165 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stab, such as: jab, twinge, ache, blow, gash, and hurt.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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