stabbing

  • (s) causing physical or especially psychological injury
    • a stabbing remark
    • wounding and false charges of disloyalty
    wounding,
  • (s) 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
    lancinate, lancinating, piercing, cutting, knifelike, keen,

Synonyms

wounding lancinate lancinating piercing cutting knifelike keen

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