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