stabbing in WordNet English dictionary

1. painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
   "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
   cutting  keen  knifelike  piercing  stabbing  lancinate  lancinating 
   
2. causing physical or especially psychological injury
   "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty"
   stabbing  wounding