transitive. To inflict a wound on (a person, the body, etc.) by means of a weapon; to injure intentionally in such a way as to cut or tear the flesh.

transitive. To stab or pierce (a person or animal) with a spear, sword, knife, or other weapon; to kill by this means. Also figurative. Also intrans…

transitive. To run through with a weapon.

transitive. To pierce, stab (a person).

transitive. To stab or pierce (a person or animal) with a spear, sword, knife, or other weapon; to kill by stabbing. Also of an animal: to butt…

transitive. With prepositional complement, esp. with through. To stab (a person). Cf. to bear through at phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete.

†transitive. To pierce (a person) with a weapon. Obsolete.

transitive. To cut with a quick and heavy blow; now always with a hewing, hacking instrument, as an axe or cleaver; formerly also with a sword.

transitive. To pierce, stab, thrust through. Obsolete.

transitive. To thrust at, stab, pierce, prick.

To pierce, stab, or cut (a person. etc.) with a sharp weapon. Also with double object. Also with complement to strike dead, to (the) death. to stri…

To pierce, stab, run through with a weapon; to wound. Obsolete.

transitive. To pierce or stab, with or as with a pointed weapon.

transitive. To pierce or stab deeply, with a sharp weapon, spike, spur, or the like. Obsolete except as in 2.

transitive. To pierce with a weapon; to wound; †also, to inflict (a wound) by piercing (obsolete). Also with away. Obsolete or archaic.

transitive. To thrust (a person) through; to thrust (a weapon, etc.) into a person or thing.

transitive. To pierce or stab with a weapon; to run (a person) through.

To strike with a pushing action; to stab or pierce with a pointed instrument. Obsolete.

transitive. To stab or pierce (a person). Usually with through (also in, †into, †to) and an indication of the part of the body affected. Cf. to run th…

transitive. To pierce or stab through the body with a weapon, etc. Cf. sense 31c.

To pierce right through something from one side to the other. transitive. To pierce through (a person or thing) with a sharp-pointed implement; to…

transferred. To pierce, transfix, or stab with a sharp weapon, etc.; to fix or impale on or upon something sharp.

transitive. To pierce through, penetrate; (also) to pass or spread throughout; to pervade, permeate. Frequently figurative and in figurative…

To make (a wound) by stabbing. Obsolete.

transitive. To cut with a falchion, use a falchion upon.

transitive. To wound (often to kill) with a thrust of a pointed weapon (chiefly, with a short weapon, as a dagger). Phrase, to stab to (†at, into)…

to stab (a person) in = sense 1. Obsolete.

transitive. To stab. Also figurative.

transitive and intransitive. To cut, pierce, or thrust with a weapon. Obsolete.

transitive. To run (a person) through with a weapon. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To prod, stab, strike, with or as with a weapon. Also figurative (cf. put, v. 3b). Obsolete.

transitive. To pierce with a ‘fox’ (see fox, n. 6).

transitive. To stab (a person); to prod or pierce (a thing) with a weapon. Also with through. Cf. stug, v. Obsolete.

transitive. To stab, esp. to death, with a poniard. Also figurative. Now chiefly historical.

transitive. To stab (a person) with a dirk. Also more generally: to stab (someone).

transitive. To thrust, stab, pierce. Obsolete.

transitive. To stab, esp. mortally, with a stiletto.

transitive. To strike or hit with a thrust of a pointed weapon. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To pierce, stab.

(transitive) to stab with a pointed weapon.

transitive. To stab with a dagger.

To pierce with a sword-thrust; to run through. Obsolete slang.

transitive. To stab or pierce with a bayonet.

transitive. To strike, cut, or kill with a tomahawk or similar implement; to attack with, or as if with, a tomahawk.

transitive. To stab, pierce with a weapon.

to knife; also, to slash with a razor (cf.chivvy, v.2).

transferred. Used of actions humorously or ironically likened to tickling, as the friction of the strings of a fiddle with a bow, a stab with a…

transitive. To strike, cut, or wound with a sabre.

transitive. To attack (a person or a person's body) with a halberd (halberd, n. 1a); to stab or slash with a halberd. Chiefly in passive.

transitive. To thrust with the end or point of something; to poke roughly; to stab.

To run through, transfix, with a sword or other weapon.

To strike, slash, or kill with a sword. Also absol. or intransitive.

transitive. To thrust or push (a thing) in a specified direction with a sharp movement; to put out (an eye). Also: †to run (a person) through with…

transitive. To pierce or transfix with a spear.

(transitive) to stab with a whinger.

transitive. In extended use: to stab (a person, etc.) as if butchering a pig; to wound mortally. Also figurative.

= chiv v. at chiv, n.3 derivatives.