stab

v

1. pierce, puncture, lancinate, prick, stick, cut, slit, gash, slash, slice, trepan; penetrate, enter, pass through, transpierce, run through, Sl. let the daylight in; impale, transfix, fix, spit, skewer; spike, spear, pike; knife, bayonet; lance, pink, lacerate, perforate, gouge, gore; thrust, drive, plunge, bury, jab, poke, strike, hit.

2. wound, hurt, pain, violate, attack, injure; grieve, aggrieve, distress, afflict, trouble, discomfort.

3. stab [s.o.] in the back

Slang. betray, reveal [s.o.'s] secrets, break faith with, Inf. double-cross, let down, sell or sell out, play false, go over to the enemy; backbite, be two-faced, play Judas, give the Judas kiss, slander, vilify, Sl. badmouth, Sl. knife.

n

4. thrust, blow, jab, pass, stroke, lunge, punch, poke; pink, prick, hit, coup.

5. wound, laceration, trauma, gash, slash, slit, nick, tear, rent; scratch, cut, incision, puncture.

6.Informal. try, attempt, effort, plunge, flyer, risk, chance, Inf. whirl.

7. pang, twinge, ache, pain, shooting or piercing pain; throe, throb, spasm; kink, stitch, crick.

8. stab in the back

Slang. betrayal, Judas kiss, kiss of death, double-dealing, duplicity, Inf. double cross.