stab
verb (used with object)
to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon.
will stab
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future tenseof stab.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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In addition to the weather, he said, there are “mountain lions, black bear, scorpions, black widows — not to mention the cactus that will stab you as you walk through.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
Q: At the end of "Entourage" episode 2, Dice wants to renegotiate his contract on a movie because, so it's implied, you think Hollywood will stab you in the back.
From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2011
Later it will stab on 400 miles further to Lanchow, remote outpost just south of the Great Wall.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course he means mischief, but he will stab reputations, not individuals.”
From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy
"On the day that I am persuaded," writes Saint-Just, "that it is impossible to render the French people kind, energetic, tender and relentless against tyranny and injustice, I will stab myself."
From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand
