I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pang/stab/twinge of jealousy (= a sudden feeling of jealousy )
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Polly felt a sharp pang of jealousy when she saw Paul with Suzanne.
a pang/twinge/stab of guilt
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Richard felt a pang of guilt, knowing that he had forgotten her birthday.
a pang/twinge/stab of regret literary (= a sudden short feeling of regret )
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Kate watched her go with a pang of regret.
a shooting/stabbing incident (= when someone is shot or stabbed )
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Two men died today in a shooting incident.
a stabbing pain (= sharp and sudden )
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Marcus heard a shot and felt a stabbing pain at the back of his ankle.
a stab/knife wound
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Her body was found with 37 stab wounds at her home in William Street.
a twinge/stab of pity (= a small feeling of pity )
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Charles even felt a twinge of pity for Mrs Sweet.
stab/beat/kick sb to death
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He was stabbed to death in an attack outside his home.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
repeatedly
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Sandra hid in undergrowth nearby as Robert was repeatedly stabbed in the chest and beaten by the gang.
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Like hairdresser Katie, 19, she was stabbed repeatedly and sexually assaulted.
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Sergeant Alan King died after being stabbed repeatedly by Vernage as he tried to crawl to safety.
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She had been repeatedly stabbed and beaten about the head with a piece of wood.
■ NOUN
air
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They banged tables and a little old professor would shout and stab the air with his cigar.
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He was stabbing the air with his yellowed fingers.
back
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MacQuillan had been stabbed in the back , there were no palm or fingerprints on the weapon.
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Some one reached through an open window and stabbed Bastidas in the back .
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Nationalists supported the Wilson/Callaghan governments for years, only to be stabbed in the back in the end.
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I was stabbed in the back because I don't have those problems with Steve.
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Her son had been stabbed twice through the back with a carving knife, as he lay in his cot.
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I see, you criticize my appearance, and then you stab me in the back !
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And Pinochet-almost literally-stabbed him in the back .
chest
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Sandra hid in undergrowth nearby as Robert was repeatedly stabbed in the chest and beaten by the gang.
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He had been stabbed in the chest .
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There was a scuffle and Murray was stabbed in the chest .
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Twenty nine year old Donald Allison from Northampton had been stabbed in the chest and died later in hospital.
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He was attacked and stabbed in the chest in the town centre, after playing rugby for the college team.
death
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He'd been stabbed to death .
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In 1839 John Ridge Senior, a Cherokee, was stabbed to death before the eyes of his twelve-year-old son.
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The two Leeds supporters were believed to have been stabbed to death after an argument with workmen.
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The other man to die was Brian Roberson, 36, who stabbed to death an elderly couple in 1986.
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Major's partner in crime was later stabbed to death during another raid.
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Half a block away, a woman is raped and stabbed to death behind an abandoned church.
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A month ago he went into Edinburgh for a night out and in the small hours was stabbed to death .
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Student teacher is stabbed to death .
finger
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I stab my finger in his eye.
heart
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The new awareness of her love for him stabbed again at her heart .
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But the extreme suffering of women and their children stabbed at my heart .
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He was stabbed through the heart .
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Meleager then rushed on the wounded creature and stabbed it to the heart .
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Aphrodite belongs in the place of healing, for while love stabs the heart , passion heals.
man
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Read in studio Detectives have issued a description of the man who stabbed a student teacher to death in Cheltenham.
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Hicks looked up and saw one man stab the other.
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At first it was thought the men may have been stabbed with a broken pool cue.
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That winter, a man was stabbed and left to die in a ditch north of town.
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But the man stabbed himself to death.
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The stabbings occurred just one night after two homeless men were stabbed several times while they slept only a few blocks away.
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A religious pilgrimage ended with three men being stabbed in a gang fight on a beach.
neck
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There was a scuffle in which Ian was stabbed through the neck .
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He'd been stabbed in the neck during a party to celebrate his engagement.
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She found the rabbit, chewing on a stubby cactus, and stabbed it in the neck .
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Jennifer Grant, 25, was stabbed in the neck in a deserted alleyway near her home at Leyton, East London.
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The teenager was stabbed in the neck on these steps in front of staff.
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Read in studio A hospital worker is critically ill after being stabbed in the neck by a patient.
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This member of the ducal family was stabbed in the neck on Boxing Day 1476.
pain
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Their hands flew to their ears again, pain stabbing into eardrums.
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Excruciating pain stabbed up into his groin.
throat
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He had been stabbed through the throat .
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Proving to be flame-proof when flung in the fire, Lucy was eventually stabbed in the throat .
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He'd been stabbed in the throat .
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She was then tortured and stabbed in the throat .
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Shortly afterwards he is stabbed in the throat , the locus of his offence: those commanding, upper-class vowels.
times
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The 42-year-old priest had been stabbed 10 times in the neck, legs, back and lungs.
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Allen slipped and fell and was stabbed three times in his left shoulder and once on top of his head.
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The victim was confronted by a group of youths and stabbed four times as he walked home at Bletchley in Milton Keynes.
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In 1989 David R.. Peterson killed a nine-year-old girl by stabbing her thirty-four times .
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She had been stabbed several times .
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Maria was stabbed seven-teen times and died that night.
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He was punched and kicked to the ground and stabbed three times in the back.
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Armstrong was recently stabbed several times by a neighbor in his Los Angeles apartment.
■ VERB
shoot
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There are shooting , burning, stabbing , tearing, neuralgic pains.
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The proboscis can be shot out forcibly, stabbing its prey.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Betty Carroll was stabbed 61 times and left to die on the floor of her Escondido home.
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Her assailant lunged, stabbing at her again and again.
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Kitty Davison was found stabbed to death one night in 1997.
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Luca stabbed her in the thigh with a breadknife.
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Meyers was stabbed once in the abdomen and once in the neck.
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The victim had been stabbed six times.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gail's stabbed outside a nightclub...
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Half a block away, a woman is raped and stabbed to death behind an abandoned church.
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He stabbed the brake, stabbed too hard, and his back wheels slurred in the dirt.
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He had been stabbed fourteen times.
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Maria was stabbed seven-teen times and died that night.
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There was a scuffle and Murray was stabbed in the chest.
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Tracy Barrett, 20, stabbed black magic follower Ian Clark, 59, several times with six steak knives.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
wound
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The Tyrone man, a member of Belfast's gay community, died from multiple injuries and stab wounds .
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Victim had multiple stab wounds and was partially burned.
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Kelly, who was in her early 20s, was airlifted to hospital with multiple stab wounds but was dead on arrival.
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Trauma centers more often are seeing bodies riddled by automatic-fire weapons or multiple stab wounds .
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Another six Leeds fans were treated in hospital for injuries; two had serious stab wounds .
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The medical examiner testified that one of the stab wounds was forceful enough to break Downing ribs.
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A post-mortem examination showed he died from head injuries and stab wounds .
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Eighteen stone Sian bravely fought for her life but collapsed with nine stab wounds in her back.
■ VERB
feel
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As Grant hurried down the narrow concrete stairs, he felt the first warning stab of pain in his torn thigh muscle.
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I feel a stab of envy in spite of myself.
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She felt a stab of resentment for the Church's claims on her precious holiday.
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I felt a sharp stab of disappointment and was surprised and angry at myself.
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I felt a stab of hatred for his captors.
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Suddenly I sit bolt upright, feeling a familiar stab of panic that can mean only one thing: the videos!
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She felt a stab of pity.
make
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The Tate has made four stabs at presenting its collection.
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Paltrow plays a spoiled young busybody who makes a disastrous stab at matchmaking.
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Next to him, Meredith made a feeble stab at joining in.
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Mrs Witherspoon made a stab at following me, but she was too drunk to get very far.
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Rigault made a stab at contacting Tu Duc, but the emperor spurned him.
take
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In the coming months, the project will take a stab at recommending solutions to the decline of the estuary.
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There have been several other attempts with the Department of Defense that took a stab at a new vehicle.
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AT&T took a stab at this kind of thing awhile back with Rhapsody based on Workhorse out of Dublin.
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A few years earlier, the Sellers shops had taken some early stabs at the problem.
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I take a stab , get up, showing how I can do the Kudakajima shuffle, even by myself.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sims had multiple stab wounds to his chest and neck.
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Wood avoided goalie Kelly Hrudey's stab at the puck before scoring.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For one incredible moment, Merrill knew a stab of envy of Elise.
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I knew the day and the month and made a stab at the year.
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Paltrow plays a spoiled young busybody who makes a disastrous stab at matchmaking.
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She managed to subdue the stab of jealousy that image brought.
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She stretched, and little stabs of pain shot through her.
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So that everybody can have a stab at it.
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There have been several other attempts with the Department of Defense that took a stab at a new vehicle.