Synonyms:
knife, stab
Meaning: use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death"
Usage examples
Every kind word, every smile was a stab to him.
Whether she meant it or not, he took her words as a covert stab at himself.
She could not help listening, though each new project was a stab to her heart.
What infinitely tiny Midges does she capture before possessing the strength to stab her Bee?
"I would stab the man, but the woman told me that if any misfortune happened to her betrothed, she would kill herself."
Without springs or snares, she lies in ambush, among the flowers, and awaits the arrival of the quarry, which she kills by administering a scientific stab in the neck.
In the sudden stab of fear that pierced her very heart she realized what Anne had come to mean to her. She would have admitted that she liked Anne--nay, that she was very fond of Anne.
When he had got the knife, he looked about, and had a mind to stab himself with it; and he had done it, had not his first cousin, Achiabus, prevented him, and held his hand, and cried out loudly.
'I have come for something else besides a bed,' replied the young man, drawing his sword, 'and if you do not promise to give me your youngest daughter as my wife I will stab you through the heart.'
Then the door would open again, messengers would enter, or a sharp bell would stab their quiet privacy, and it was like a window in a well built brightly lit house flung open suddenly to a hurricane.