stab
verb/stæb/
/stæb/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they stab | /stæb/ /stæb/ |
| he / she / it stabs | /stæbz/ /stæbz/ |
| past simple stabbed | /stæbd/ /stæbd/ |
| past participle stabbed | /stæbd/ /stæbd/ |
| -ing form stabbing | /ˈstæbɪŋ/ /ˈstæbɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] stab somebody to push a sharp, pointed object, especially a knife, into somebody, killing or injuring them
- He was stabbed to death in a racist attack.
- She stabbed him in the arm with a screwdriver.
Extra ExamplesTopics Crime and punishmentc1- He is accused of repeatedly stabbing a 16-year-old boy.
- He was fatally stabbed.
- He was found stabbed in his car.
- He was stabbed in the chest.
- Tina accidentally stabbed herself with her pencil.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- repeatedly
- fatally
- accidentally
- …
- threaten to
- try to
- at
- in
- with
- …
- be found stabbed
- stab somebody to death
- [transitive, intransitive] to make a short, aggressive or violent movement with a finger or pointed object synonym jab, prod
- stab something (at/into/through something) He stabbed his finger angrily at my chest.
- She stabbed her cigarette into the ashtray.
- I stabbed at my meat with my fork.
- stab somebody/something (with something) She stabbed the air with her fork.
- stab at/into/through something (figurative) The pain stabbed at his chest.
Word Originlate Middle English: of unknown origin.
Idioms
See stab in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarystab somebody in the back
- to do or say something that harms somebody who trusts you synonym betray
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