Adjective stabbing has 2 senses
  1. stabbing, traumatic, wounding - causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty"
    Antonym: harmless (indirect, via harmful)
  2. cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating - as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
    Antonym: dull (indirect, via sharp)
,Verb stab has 3 senses
  1. knife, stab - use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death"
    --1 is one way to injure, wound
    Derived forms: noun stab2, noun stabber1
    Sample sentence:
    They want to stab the prisoners
  2. stab, jab - stab or pierce; "he jabbed the piece of meat with his pocket knife"
    --2 is one way to thrust
    Derived forms: noun stab2, noun stabber1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  3. jab, prod, stab, poke, dig - poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her ribs"
    --3 is one way to thrust
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody PP
    Somebody ----s something PP
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