transcription, транскрипция: [ stæb ]
( stabs, stabbing, stabbed)
1.
If someone stabs you, they push a knife or sharp object into your body.
Somebody stabbed him in the stomach...
Stephen was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack nearly five months ago.
VERB : V n , V to n
2.
If you stab something or stab at it, you push at it with your finger or with something pointed that you are holding.
Bess stabbed a slice of cucumber...
Goldstone flipped through the pages and stabbed his thumb at the paragraph he was looking for...
He stabbed at the omelette with his fork.
VERB : V n , V n at n , V at n
3.
If you have a stab at something, you try to do it. ( INFORMAL )
Several tennis stars have had a stab at acting.
N-SING : a N at n / -ing
4.
You can refer to a sudden, usually unpleasant feeling as a stab of that feeling. ( LITERARY )
...a stab of pain just above his eye...
She felt a stab of pity for him.
N-SING : a N of n
5.
If you say that someone has stabbed you in the back , you mean that they have done something very harmful to you when you thought that you could trust them. You can refer to an action of this kind as a stab in the back .
She felt betrayed, as though her daughter had stabbed her in the back...
PHRASE : V inflects
6.
a stab in the dark: see dark