stab
see also: STAB
Pronunciation Noun
STAB
Noun
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see also: STAB
Pronunciation Noun
stab (plural stabs)
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
- (informal) An attempt.
- I'll give this thankless task a stab.
- Criticism.
- (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- a horn stab
- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
- French: percée
- German: Stich
- Italian: pugnalata
- Portuguese: punhalada
- Russian: уда́р
- Spanish: puñalada (general), cuchillada, acuchillamiento
- German: Stichwunde
- Italian: coltellata, pugnalata
- Portuguese: punhalada
- Russian: колотая ра́на
- Spanish: puñalada, cuchillada
- Russian: попы́тка
- Russian: кри́тика
stab (stabs, present participle stabbing; past and past participle stabbed)
- (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- If you stab him in the heart he won't live long enough to retaliate.
- (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- to stab a dagger into a person
- (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
- None shall dare / With shortened sword to stab in closer war.
- He stabbed at my face with the twig but luckily kept missing my eyes.
- (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- The snow from the blizzard was stabbing at my face as I skied down the mountain.
- (transitive, figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- to stab a person's reputation
- (transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- (transitive) To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
- French: poignarder, frapper d'un coup de couteau
- German: stechen, erstechen, niederstechen
- Italian: pugnalare, accoltellare
- Portuguese: apunhalar, esfaquear
- Russian: зака́лывать
- Spanish: apuñalar, acuchillar
- Italian: sfregiare
- Russian: ра́нить
STAB
Noun
stab (uncountable)
- (fandom slang, Pokémon) A 50% damage boost applied when a Pokémon uses a move with the same type as itself (for example, an Electric-type Pokémon using an Electric-type move).
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