noun the thrust of a pointed weapon.
2. stab ·vi to wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.
3. stab ·noun fig.: an injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.
4. stab ·noun a wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.
5. stab ·vt fig.: to injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
6. stab ·vi to give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.
7. stab ·vt to pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.