Verb

(stabb)

To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.

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To thrust in a stabbing motion.

To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger .

* (John Dryden)

None shall dare / With shortened sword to stab in closer war.

To cause a sharp, painful sensation .

(figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.

Verb

(en verb)

To pierce; penetrate; run through; stab.

*1815 , Thomas Nash, Christ's tears over Jerusalem :

Yea, though Christ from the skies hold out never so moving lures unto us, all of them (haggard like) we will turn tail to, and haste to the iron fist, that holds out nought but a knife to enthrill us.

To cause to thrill.

*1839 , George Robert Wythen Baxter, Baron George Gordon Byron Byron, Don Juan Junior :

[...] for then a glance from her she knew, Could inthrill his heart, enrapture and control [...]

*1890 , William Clark Russell, A marriage at sea :

Long years ago, amid the sunny hills Where Arno dashing makes the maddest mirth, A master lived whose melody enthrills , And ever will, the children of the earth.

(sex) To copulate; have sexual intercourse.

*1867 , Mrs. Henry Wood, Lady Adelaide's oath :

She's getting enthrilled by him; she is, my lord. I saw 'em meet just now in the wood.