Stab vs Twinge - What's the difference?
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An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
A wound made by stabbing.
Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
(informal) An attempt.
Criticism.
(music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 To thrust in a stabbing motion.
To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger .
* (John Dryden)
To cause a sharp, painful sensation .
(figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=The Norwich Victims
, chapter=7/2 To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
* Hudibras
To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
* L'Estrange
To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.
As nouns the difference between stab and twinge
is that stab is an act of stabbing or thrusting with an object while twinge is a pinch; a tweak; a twitch.As verbs the difference between stab and twinge
is that stab is to pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger while twinge is to pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.stab
English
(wikipedia stab)Noun
(en noun)- I'll give this thankless task a stab .
- a horn stab
Derived terms
* have a stab at, take a stab at * stabbing * stabby * stab vest * stab in the dark * stab in the backVerb
(stabb)citation, passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
- None shall dare / With shortened sword to stab in closer war.
Derived terms
* stabbertwinge
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.}}
Verb
(twing)- When a man is past his sense, / There's no way to reduce him thence, / But twinging him by the ears or nose, / Or laying on of heavy blows.
- The gnat twinged him [the lion] till he made him tear himself, and so mastered him.
