Staining

Definition

stab /stæb / v (-bb-) ၁။ ဓား၊ စူးစသည္ျဖင့္ ထိုးသည္။ He had been stabbed (to death). ❍ stab sb in the neck/chest/stomach ❍ He stabbed the meat with his fork/stabbed his fork into the meat. ၂။ ~ (at) sb/sth (with sth) လက္ညိႇဳး၊ အေခ်ာင္းအတံ စသည္ျဖင့္ ထိုးသည္၊ ဆတ္ခနဲႏိွပ္သည္။ လက္ညိႇဳးတေငါက္ေငါက္ လုပ္သည္။ She stabbed angrily at the lift button. ❍ He/His finger stabbed the air furiously. ❍ NUDGE n ၁။ [C] အခြၽန္ျဖင့္ထိုးျခင္း။ ထိုးသြင္းရာဒဏ္ရာ။ stab wounds ❍ He received a stab in the chest. ၂။ [C] ထိုးက်င့္ေသာ ေဝဒနာ။ စိတ္ထိခိုက္သည့္ ခံစားခ်က္။ a stab of pain in the chest ❍ feel a stab of guilt/pity/fear/jealousy. ၃။ [C usu sing ] ~ (at sth) ( infml ) စမ္းၾကည့္ျခင္း။ ရမ္းဆျခင္း။ ရမ္းတုတ္ျခင္း။ She found the test difficult but nevertheless made a good stab at it. ❍ Anyone can have a stab at designing the new logo. ❍ He made a wild stab at my name and got it completely wrong. ❏ stabbing adj ထိုးက်င့္ေသာ။ have/feel a stabbing pain in the chest. n ဓားထိုးမႈ။ a dramatic increase in the number of stabbings in the city. ❏ stab sb in the back [ IDM ] ( infml ) လူယံုသတ္သည္။ ေနာက္ေက်ာဓားႏွင့္ထိုးသည္။ ❏ a stab in the back [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေနာက္ေက်ာဓားႏွင့္ ထိုးျခင္း။ Her refusal to support his campaign was a real stab in the back.

Examples

1. His brother was stabbed in the hand.
2. [stab someone to death] : One fan was stabbed to death in a fight between gangs.
3. She stabbed the meat with her fork.
4. ‘Here!’ she said
5. stabbing the book with her finger.
6. [stab at] : He stabbed at the paper with his pen.
7. His words stabbed her to the heart.
8. The new striker ran up and stabbed the ball home.