What is the meaning of stabbing?

verb

• Use a knife on.
  • usage: "The victim was knifed to death"
  • synonyms: knife, stab
• Stab or pierce.
  • usage: "he jabbed the piece of meat with his pocket knife"
  • synonyms: stab, jab
• Poke or thrust abruptly.
  • usage: "he jabbed his finger into her ribs"
  • synonyms: jab, prod, stab, poke, dig

adjective

• Causing physical or especially psychological injury.
  • usage: "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty"
  • synonyms: wounding
• Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument.
  • usage: "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
  • synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, lancinate, lancinating