transitive. To pierce slightly; make a minute hole in (a surface or body) with a fine or sharp point; to puncture, perforate. Hence: to wound or…

transitive. To prick; to affect with a pricking sensation. Now English regional.

transitive. To run through with a weapon.

transitive. To pierce, stab; to give (one) a thrust; = thrust, v. 5.

transitive. To pierce, stab (a person).

transitive. With prepositional complement, esp. with through. To stab (a person). Cf. to bear through at phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete.

†transitive. To pierce (a person) with a weapon. Obsolete.

transitive. To pierce, stab, thrust through. Obsolete.

transitive. To thrust at, stab, pierce, prick.

To pierce, stab, run through with a weapon; to wound. Obsolete.

transitive. To pierce or stab, with or as with a pointed weapon.

transitive. To pierce or stab deeply, with a sharp weapon, spike, spur, or the like. Obsolete except as in 2.

transitive. To pierce with a weapon; to wound; †also, to inflict (a wound) by piercing (obsolete). Also with away. Obsolete or archaic.

transitive. To pierce through the ‘slot’. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To thrust (a person) through; to thrust (a weapon, etc.) into a person or thing.

transitive. To pierce or stab with a weapon; to run (a person) through.

To strike with a pushing action; to stab or pierce with a pointed instrument. Obsolete.

transitive. To stab or pierce (a person). Usually with through (also in, †into, †to) and an indication of the part of the body affected. Cf. to run th…

transitive. To pierce or stab through the body with a weapon, etc. Cf. sense 31c.

To pierce right through something from one side to the other. transitive. To pierce through (a person or thing) with a sharp-pointed implement; to…

transferred. To pierce, transfix, or stab with a sharp weapon, etc.; to fix or impale on or upon something sharp.

transitive. To pierce through, penetrate; (also) to pass or spread throughout; to pervade, permeate. Frequently figurative and in figurative…

transitive. To stab with a weapon. Frequently with at. Cf. to run through 1 at phrasal verbs 1. Now rare.

transitive. To wound (often to kill) with a thrust of a pointed weapon (chiefly, with a short weapon, as a dagger). Phrase, to stab to (†at, into)…

to stab (a person) in = sense 1. Obsolete.

transitive. To pierce, stab. rare.

transitive. To prod, stab, strike, with or as with a weapon. Also figurative (cf. put, v. 3b). Obsolete.

transitive. To stab (a person); to prod or pierce (a thing) with a weapon. Also with through. Cf. stug, v. Obsolete.

intransitive. To make a stab or thrust at. Also figurative. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To strike or hit with a thrust of a pointed weapon. Obsolete. rare.

(transitive) to stab with a pointed weapon.

transitive. To stab, pierce with a weapon.

transferred. Used of actions humorously or ironically likened to tickling, as the friction of the strings of a fiddle with a bow, a stab with a…

To run through, transfix, with a sword or other weapon.

transitive. To stab or attack with a pitchfork.

transitive. To thrust or push (a thing) in a specified direction with a sharp movement; to put out (an eye). Also: †to run (a person) through with…

transitive. To stab. Also intransitive.