transitive. To cut; †to kill by cutting.

transitive. To pierce with a sword, etc.; to gore, or stab to death.

transitive. To stab or pierce (a person or animal) with a spear, sword, knife, or other weapon; to kill by this means. Also figurative. Also intrans…

transitive. To pierce with a sharp-pointed weapon or instrument. (Cf. through-sting, v.) to sting to death. Obsolete.

to put (†do) to the sword, to kill or slaughter with the sword.

transitive. To attack or injure the throat of; (in later use esp.) to seize by the throat. Now rare.

To pierce, stab, or cut (a person. etc.) with a sharp weapon. Also with double object. Also with complement to strike dead, to (the) death. to stri…

To cut down or bring to the ground, etc. (a person or animal) with blows of the sword or battleaxe; to slay with cutting blows.

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 stab, esp. to death, with a poniard. Also figurative. Now chiefly historical.

transitive. To stab, esp. mortally, with a stiletto.

transitive. To kill by cutting the throat; to kill, slay, put to death.

transitive. To stab or kill with a kris.

transitive. To stab with a dagger.

transitive. To wound, impale, or kill with a pike. Also figurative.

To lay low or kill with the sword or the like.

To strike, slash, or kill with a sword. Also absol. or intransitive.