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stab

noun as in piercing cut

noun as in attempt

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In his defence, Franco said he thought Ahmad was armed, and stabbed him because he thought it was "him or me".

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She told the jury at the High Court in Edinburgh that, after being admitted to hospital in Lerwick, Mr Pearson said he had driven his car off a pier and stabbed himself.

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In September last year, a Japanese elementary school student was stabbed to death in southern China.

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The assailant was shot dead by British police but not before he stabbed and killed a man and tried to barge into the synagogue itself, where worshipers were hunkered down.

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Two people died and several were wounded during the attack on the northern English city’s Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue after the attacker rammed his car into the gates and began stabbing people, police said.

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

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