Crossword-Solution: STAB 4 letters, 434 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Stab	v. t.	To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
Stab	v. t.	Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
Stab	v. i.	To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.
Stab	v. i.	To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.
Stab	n.	The thrust of a pointed weapon.
Stab	n.	A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.
Stab	n.	Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
STAB	anagram	ABST, ABTS, ASBT, BAST, BATS, SATB, TABS, TBAS

We have 434 clues for the answer “STAB”

Clue	Answers
"I'll take a ___ at it!"	1 answer
"Shank," in prison lingo	1 answer
"Sure, I'll take a ___ at it" ("I'll try")	1 answer
"True friends __ you in the front": Wilde	1 answer
"True friends ___ you in the front" (Oscar Wilde)	1 answer
*Motionless sculptures	1 answer
A fumbling try: Colloq.	1 answer
A go at it	1 answer
A jerky stroke, as with a bat.	1 answer
A random effort.	1 answer
A try: Colloq.	1 answer
A way to wound	1 answer
Act like Brutus	1 answer
Action taken in the dark	1 answer
Acute onset	1 answer
Advance one's point forcefully?	1 answer
Aimless attempt: Colloq.	1 answer
An attempt: Colloq.	1 answer
Anguished sensation	1 answer
Assault with a knife	1 answer
Attack a la Brutus	1 answer
Attack a la Norman Bates	1 answer
Attack as Hamlet did Polonius	1 answer
Attack from Casca or Brutus	1 answer
Attack like Brutus	1 answer
Attack like Norman Bates	1 answer
Attack pointedly	1 answer
Attack with a dagger	1 answer
Attack with a knife	1 answer
Attack with a shiv	1 answer
Attack with a sword	1 answer
Attack à la Brutus	1 answer
Attack, as Caesar	1 answer
Attempt of a sort	1 answer
Attempt with a dagger	1 answer
Attempt, in slang	1 answer
Attempt, metaphorically	1 answer
Attempt, slangily	1 answer
Awkward try	1 answer
Back injury of sorts	1 answer
Back wound.	1 answer
Bad thing to have to take on a test	1 answer
Baffled "Jeopardy!" contestant's effort	1 answer
Bats backward	1 answer
Bayonet through	1 answer
Bayonet thrust	1 answer
Bayonet verbally?	1 answer
Bayonet, e.g.	1 answer
Be piercing	1 answer
Blind effort	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TAEER

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with STAB (5)

Nay, from the moment when we came down the old church-steps together, a married pair, I might have beheld the bale-fire of that scarlet letter blazing at the end of our path!” “Thou knowest,” said Hester—for, depressed as she was, she could not endure this last quiet stab at the token of her shame—“thou knowest that I was frank with thee.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Some were bathing in exactly the place where I had saved Weena, and that suddenly gave me a keen stab of pain.

The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

When we lose the ability to make an educated guess, take a stab at, shoot from the hip, we cease using a valuable creative tool.

Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

The thought flashed across me that I might have before me a burglar or cut-throat, some monstrous Irregular Isosceles, who, by feigning the voice of a Circle, had obtained admission somehow into the house, and was now preparing to stab me with his acute angle.

Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1994

The stab was on the right side of the neck and from behind forward, so that it is almost impossible that it could have been self-inflicted.” “Unless he fell upon the knife,” said Holmes.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994

Quotes with STAB (3)

When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing--or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need but don't and can't get anyway.

Brock Clarke An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First and Second Series

I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.

Robert Walser Masquerade and Other Stories

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,331 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).