stabbing


stabbing (http://definr.com/stabbing)

     adj 1: causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a
            stabbing remark"; "few experiences are more traumatic
            than losing a child"; "wounding and false charges of
            disloyalty" [syn: traumatic, wounding]
     2: as physically 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" [syn: cutting, keen,
         knifelike, piercing, lancinate, lancinating]