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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

stab
     n : a thrusting blow with a knife [syn: thrust, knife thrust]
     v 1: use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death" [syn: knife]
     2: stab or pierce [syn: jab]
     3: poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her
        ribs" [syn: jab, prod, poke, dig]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Stab \Stab\, v. i.
   1. To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to
      thrust with a pointed weapon.

            None shall dare With shortened sword to stab in
            closer war.                           --Dryden.

   2. To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.

            She speaks poniards, and every word stabs. --Shak.

   To stab at, to offer or threaten to stab; to thrust a
      pointed weapon at.
Stab \Stab\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stabbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Stabbing.] [Cf. OD. staven to fix, fasten, fr. stave,
   staff, a staff, rod; akin to G. stab a staff, stick, E.
   staff; also Gael. stob to stab, as n., a stake, a stub. Cf.
   Staff.]
   1. 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.

   2. Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or
      slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
Stab \Stab\, n.
   1. The thrust of a pointed weapon.

   2. A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the
      stab an assassin. --Shak.

   3. Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab
      given to character.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

STAB

   <language> A descendent of BCPL.

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