Meaning & Definition of Stabbing in English

1. Causing physical or especially psychological injury

• "A stabbing remark"

• "Wounding and false charges of disloyalty"

2. Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

• "A cutting wind"

• "Keen winds"

• "Knifelike cold"

• "Piercing knifelike pains"

• "Piercing cold"

• "Piercing criticism"

• "A stabbing pain"

• "Lancinating pain"