stab
verb (used with object)
to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Mercy should grace any description of the performers, but it is difficult to be charitable while they are stabbing Shakespeare to death.
From Time Magazine Archive
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