STABBING

• (adj.) 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"

  synonyms : cutting , keen , knifelike , lancinate , lancinating , piercing

• (adj.) causing physical or especially psychological injury

  "a stabbing remark", "wounding and false charges of disloyalty"

  synonyms : wounding

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