stabbing

Adj.	1.	stabbing - causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty" Synonyms: wounding, traumatic
	2.	stabbing - as physically 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" Synonyms: lancinate, lancinating, piercing, cutting, knifelike, keen