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▸ noun: A wound made by stabbing.
▸ noun: Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
▸ noun: (informal) An attempt.
▸ noun: Criticism.
▸ noun: (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
▸ noun: A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
▸ verb: (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
▸ verb: (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
▸ verb: (transitive, figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
▸ verb: (transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
▸ verb: (transitive) To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
▸ verb: (transitive, oil industry) To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.
▸ noun: (aviation, slang) The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
▸ noun: (fandom slang, Pokémon) A 50% damage boost applied when a Pokémon uses a move with the same type as itself (for example, an Electric-type Pokémon using an Electric-type move).
▸ adjective: (industrial relations) Clipping of established. [Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.]
▸ noun: (industrial relations) Clipping of establishment. [The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.]
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