Thesaurus / stabbing
other words for stabbing
MOST RELEVANT
- acuminate
- barbed
- fine
- gnawing
- honed
- horned
- jagged
- keen
- peaked
- piercing
- pointed
- serrated
- shooting
- spiked
- stinging
- tapered
- tapering
- tined
- tipped
- whetted
- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminous
- acute
- apical
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- ground fine
- keen-edged
- knife-edged
- knifelike
- lancinating
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- razor-sharp
- salient
- sharp-edged
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- thorny
- unblunted
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
At halftime, the pain in his chest went from tingling to stabbing.
A HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COACH HAD A HEART ATTACK DURING A GAME, BUT DIDN’T LEAVE UNTIL IT WAS DONEKYLE MELNICKNOVEMBER 20, 2020WASHINGTON POST
It was on an occasion of the death of a man in this city by stabbing, who begged loudly for confession.
The first true pang of grief shot through Ethel like a dart, stabbing and taking away her breath, "Where are they?"
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGE
But now they were piling upon him, striking and stabbing, a living mound which for the moment concealed the big fellow.
A VIRGINIA SCOUTHUGH PENDEXTER
He was going in now though, almost crawling, his breath coming in stabbing gasps, his hands torn and bleeding.
TIME ENOUGH AT LASTLYN VENABLE
Those who survived uttered their yell and plunged into the corners, stabbing with their knives.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST
Behind him, each of the natives had laid his stabbing-knife, skinning-knife, and whetstone.
THE BOY WITH THE U. S. FISHERIESFRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER
Most of these men were armed with long tucks, as the straight stabbing swords, much used by Cromwell's soldiery, were then called.
PEVERIL OF THE PEAKSIR WALTER SCOTT
All this stabbing and killing comes from too much work and no play.
Looking down he saw fifty stabbing pencils of flame flickering from fifty A-A guns.
TAM O' THE SCOOTSEDGAR WALLACE
WORDS RELATED TO STABBING
- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminate
- acuminous
- acute
- apical
- barbed
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- fine
- gnawing
- ground fine
- honed
- horned
- jagged
- keen
- keen-edged
- knife-edged
- lancinating
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
- peaked
- piercing
- pointed
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- razor-sharp
- salient
- serrated
- sharp-edged
- shooting
- spiked
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- stabbing
- stinging
- tapered
- tapering
- thorny
- tined
- tipped
- unblunted
- whetted
- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminate
- acuminous
- acute
- apical
- barbed
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- fine
- gnawing
- ground fine
- honed
- horned
- jagged
- keen
- keen-edged
- knife-edged
- knifelike
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
- peaked
- piercing
- pointed
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- razor-sharp
- salient
- serrated
- sharp-edged
- shooting
- spiked
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- stabbing
- stinging
- tapered
- tapering
- thorny
- tined
- tipped
- unblunted
- whetted
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.