Thesaurus:stab
English
Verb
(transitive)
Sense: to pierce or wound with a pointed tool or weapon
Synonyms
- chef (MLE)
- chib (UK dialect)
- ching (MLE)
- chive (obsolete, thieves' cant)
- enthrill
- foin (archaic)
- gore (obsolete)
- gride (obsolete)
- jab
- job
- juke (prison slang)
- kebab (slang)
- knifecrime (UK, humorous)
- lancinate
- pigstick
- pink
- poach (obsolete)
- run through (idiomatic)
- shank (slang)
- shiv (slang)
- spear
- speet (obsolete)
- splash (MLE)
- stab
- stick [⇒ thesaurus] (dialect)
- stob (UK & US dialect)
- stog (UK dialect)
- thrust
- yerk (archaic)
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Further reading
- “361. killing” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “260. opening” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “stab” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.