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Stab Stabbed Push Finger Pointed Holding Bess Slice

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If you s___ something or stab at it, you push at it with your finger or with something pointed that you are holding .If you stab something or stab at it, you push at it with your finger or with something pointed that you are holding .
Bess stabbed a slice of cucumber.
Goldstone flipped through the pages and stabbed his thumb at the paragraph he was looking for.
He stabbed at the omelette with his fork.
word stab
full-definition
verb
If someone stabs you, they push a knife or sharp object into your body.
Somebody stabbed him in the stomach.
Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver.
Stephen was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack nearly five months ago.
If you stab something or stab at it, you push at it with your finger or with something pointed that you are holding .
Bess stabbed a slice of cucumber.
Goldstone flipped through the pages and stabbed his thumb at the paragraph he was looking for.
He stabbed at the omelette with his fork.
noun
If you have a stab at something, you try to do it.
Several tennis stars have had a stab at acting.
You can refer to a sudden, usually unpleasant feeling as a stab of that feeling.
...a stab of pain just above his eye.
She felt a stab of pity for him.
inflections stabsstabbingstabbed
cefr-level C1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1

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