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stab

noun as in piercing cut

noun as in attempt

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He was relocated there after he was stabbed by a fellow inmate at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi earlier this year.

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He was also attacked by a fellow inmate earlier this year, who stabbed him 14 times, causing two collapsed lungs and wounds to his back, torso, head and face.

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He was also stabbed 14 times by another inmate in May this year, and a convicted killer was named as a suspect in the attack.

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A man accused of murdering a woman who was stabbed in the neck in Birmingham could face a trial in May.

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Cambridgeshire Police has already been reviewing its prior contact with the man suspected of stabbing people on the Doncaster to London King's Cross train on 1 November, which was stopped at Huntingdon.

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

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