stab

(stab),

To pierce with a pointed instrument, as a knife or dagger.

[Gael. stob]

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stab

Forensics
verb To thrust a sharp object into a victim and, usually, interrupt the skin surface.

Microbiology
noun Stab culture, see there.

verb To inoculate a semisolid bacterial growth medium, usually in a “slant” tube, with a jabbing motion performed with streaking, which combines anaerobic (“stab”) and aerobic (“streak”) conditions in the same test tube; used in triple sugar iron agar tubes.

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Two weeks before the stabbing, at 4.30pm on November 9, Walton stole a motorbike from outside a house in Bradwell.

Teen says 'you mess with me - you get stabbed' after knifing man with 14-inch blade; Jack Walton stabbed his victim after trying to knife his friend at a house party in Tunstall, a court heard

Evidence presented during trial had it that the boy intervened and stabbed Diergaardt on his upper thigh in an attempt to stop him from stabbing his mother.

Khomasdal resident found guilty of stabbing girlfriend to death

It takes the total of reported stabbings in Coventry so far this year to 25.

Two people stabbed in Hillfields

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Enfield stabbing: Man arrested for attempted murder being detained in hospital; Custody officers are guarding him in custody in hospital

Dervish Husseyin, 60, was at his friend's house on Aberdeen Road when the stabbing there took place.

Attacker behind stabbings 'chose people out alone'

Swift medical intervention helped save the life of the teenaged son, who was rushed to hospital immediately after the stabbing.

Drunk man jailed for stabbing teenaged son

Since 2015, Palestinians have killed over 50 Israelis, two visiting Americans and a British tourist in stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks.

Military: Palestinian stabs and seriously wounds Israeli man

The figures, released in a police Freedom of Information request, detail 23 fatal stabbings, 283 serious knife attacks and 571 assaults with a blade which caused minor injury.

60 knife crimes a week in the West Midlands

The figures also include a stabbing outside a Chiquitos restaurant in Dudley in February.

60 knife crimes every week across the region; KILLINGS, ATTACKS AND THREATS REVEALED IN DISTURBING NEW FIGURES FOR THE LAST YEAR

MEN of the Police in Ondo state have arrested a middle-aged man, Adewale Adegoroye, for allegedly stabbing his master, Akinmulero Akinwumi, who was also the manager of Ondo Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society, to death and made away with the sum of N700,000.

Storekeeper stabs manager to death in Ondo