(v. t.) To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
(v. t.) Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
(v. i.) To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.
(v. i.) To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.
(n.) The thrust of a pointed weapon.
(n.) A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.
(n.) Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.
Example Sentences:
(1) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(2) Dermot Kelly said: "The England Supporters Band is right up there with the vuvuzela for wanting to stab myself in the head with a fork."
(3) You could understand why the Met was frantic to find who had stabbed Rachel Nickell 49 times on Wimbledon Common while her screaming child looked on, but the case against Stagg was preposterous.
(4) Results indicate that 75% of the participating boys and 10% of participating girls had witnessed the shooting, stabbing, robbing, or killing of another person in their own lives.
(5) Stab wounds to the temporal fossa appear as a characteristic clinical entity.
(6) Many of the patients with stab wounds of the precordial chest (danger zone) had cardiac or major vascular injuries, and the mortality rate of them was high.
(7) Sigurdsson’s deep corner kick was headed back across goal by Borja and Fer, via a slight touch from Van der Hoorn, stabbed over the line.
(8) The multi-agency review of the circumstances leading up to the killing of the 16-year-old, who was fatally stabbed at Cults Academy, one of Scotland’s highest performing state schools, on 28 October 2015, also concluded that his death could have been avoided had those who knew that his killer carried weapons in school reported this to staff.
(9) Later, it proved that he was stabbed with a foreign body penetrating into the contralateral frontal lobe through the left nasal cavity.
(10) Violence had subsided by Sunday evening – but not before dozens had been shot or stabbed, leaving 25 dead and 56 injured.
(11) It consists of the comprehensive extraction of the varices through extremely small stab incisions, followed immediately by vigorous marching.
(12) It is possible that Clegg could yet get to 30 seats or so at the next election, and in Britain's fluid politics that may give him a stab at forming another coalition.
(13) Another Palestinian man, suspected of having stabbed and wounded an Israeli teenager, was shot dead by police in Jerusalem.
(14) Based on one-to-one interviews with more than 40 people, the inquiry said the immediate aftermath of the stabbing “was well managed by all agencies”.
(15) Overall mortality was 130, 8.7%; 9.5% for gunshot wounds, 3.4% for stab wounds, and 2.5% for blunt trauma.
(16) I got to HaHagana bridge with a friend and we saw a big man in a red sweatshirt stabbing a soldier twice, apparently someone from the air force,” he said.
(17) On the other hand, both blunt trauma and posterior stab wounds frequently caused isolated retroperitoneal duodenal lesions where the diagnosis was not evident on admission, but in which the insidious and progressive development of symptoms and signs drew attention to the need for laparotomy.
(18) A patient who sustained an acute carotid-cavernous fistula due to a stab wound is presented.
(19) The use of the Columbia agar stab culture is recommended as a rapid and simple test for recognition of group B streptococci.
(20) If so, ministers may need to be prepared for a new breed of civil servants, who will no longer fall on their swords if they believe they have been stabbed in the back.
Thankless
Definition:
(a.) Not acknowledging favors; not expressing thankfulness; unthankful; ungrateful.
(a.) Not obtaining or deserving thanks; unacceptable; as, a thankless task.
Example Sentences:
(1) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
(2) Villa have now gone a club-record 15 league games without a win, they remain eight points adrift of safety, and Rémi Garde could be forgiven for privately wishing that Arsène Wenger, his mentor, had talked him out of, and not into, this thankless job.
(3) Replying to a budget statement – even one that’s heavily briefed – is a thankless task at the best of times.
(4) I had worked thankless waitressing jobs since I was 16, and, coupled with a small inheritance from my late grandmother, I'd been able to put aside a small sum of money.
(5) "This policy has so many downsides – it violates natural law, it makes kids spoilt and thankless," she said.
(6) October 9, 2013 Sony Kapoor (@SonyKapoor) Dear #Yellen , welcome to a powerful, but thankless job!
(7) I recall, even now, his first Stratford appearance in the seemingly thankless role of Aragon in The Merchant of Venice (1960).
(8) President Barack Obama is set to name his current chief of staff, Jack Lew, to the most thankless job in American politics: treasury secretary.
(9) We talk about going into the empty bedrooms – the room whose mess we used to complain about – and about the days that were for years crammed with thankless domestic tasks and now have a kind of spaciousness about them.
(10) It's thankless in the sense that the complexity of this process is one that is very hard to get your arms around, and hence you never read in the newspaper, any media, anybody thanking governments for this kind of approach because it is complex.
(11) e360: You were quoted as having called the executive director's job thankless and you've also called it the most inspiring job in the world.
(12) Running Spurs was "a waste of my life" and "a thankless, hopeless task", he has since said.
(13) It would be hard to imagine a more thankless task at the present moment than defending the Right Honourable member for Sutton Coldfield, parliamentary secretary to the Treasury (as the chief whip is formally known).
(14) Always had thanklessness and carelessness with the child from living together adults, who playing handle and waste the toxic.
(15) Either way the task of climbing away from the foot of the table looks a thankless one.
(16) One of the most thankless jobs in the legal world must be championing public legal education (PLE).
(17) I took my savings from working two thankless jobs in food and fashion retail and went in search of adventure; I ended up at a liberal Girl Scouts camp in northern California, moulding the hearts and minds of girls aged six to 16.
(18) You’ve just got to go through that.” The lot of a young goalkeeper, particularly at a top club, can seem thankless.
(19) He then moved into the private sector, joining Goldman Sachs for five years; before taking on the thankless task as governor of the Bank of Italy, where he was credited with helping steer Italy's debt-ridden economy through the crisis without requiring financial assistance.... His time in the US, in particular, is said to have influenced him, driving him to act early rather than take the German wait-and-see attitude that has often prevailed in Europe.
(20) A tough and sometimes thankless job, but de Boer does it as well as anyone can.