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say it: STAB-ing
stabbing is an adjective meaning "causing physical or especially psychological injury". It is pronounced /ˈstæbɪŋ/ — STAB-ing. It carries 2 recorded senses.
painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
“a cutting wind”
“keen winds”
“knifelike cold”
“piercing knifelike pains”
“piercing cold”
“piercing criticism”
“a stabbing pain”
“lancinating pain”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stabbing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.