stab
verb (used with object)
to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon.
has stabbed
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present perfectof stab (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“To say that Klein has stabbed her former mentor, boss, and friend of 23 years, Sam Gores, in the back is an understatement of epic proportions.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2020
Halloween, director David Gordon Green’s entry in the long-running horror franchise, has stabbed its way to the top of the weekend box office, pulling in an estimated weekend take of $77.5 million, according to Variety.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2018
After the eight informed Shockley that they were leaving, his lieutenant told them that it felt as if “a good friend has stabbed him in the back.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
No matter what Lieberman has done and no matter how many times he has stabbed their party in the back, he’ll always be afforded some degree of collegiality from some Senate Democrats.
From Slate ● May 18, 2017
The passage in which Thisbe accuses the poniard with which Pyramus has stabbed himself of blushing at having sullied itself with the blood of its master is a commonplace of quotation.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
