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💃 Energetic dance 🗡️ A stabbing 🗡️ To stab
to daggering

to daggering

9.7
To stab someone with a small pointed knife
  • verb
  • /ˈdæɡərɪŋ/
  • NSFW
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  • Witnesses saw the suspect daggering the victim before fleeing the scene.

Examples

  • The assassin daggers his targets swiftly.

  • He daggered his opponent during the match.

  • In the historical play, the villain is shown daggering his rival in a moment of madness.

  • The knight was accused of daggering his opponent during the duel.

  • The soldiers accused him of daggering the enemy commander in a surprise attack.

  • In the movie, the hero is shown daggering the villain to save his friend.

  • The police reported that the suspect was seen daggering the victim in an alley.

Synonyms

to knife
vsto daggering
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15 7.1

To cut or hurt someone with a sharp blade

is narrower, referring specifically to attacks with a short thrusting blade
to dagger
vsto daggering
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1 7.9

To stab someone with a short pointed knife

is the same action but used as the continuous action form
to poignard
vsto daggering
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9.9

To stab someone with a small pointed knife

is the same idea but used in literary or archaic language

Antonyms

to defend
∞ 1.3

To protect people and things from attack or harm

How Violent

to murder
  • NSFW
∞ 3.0
to daggering
  • NSFW
9.7
cutting
70 2.7
to hitting
3 1.0
pushing
1.2

Surface Forms

dagger infinitive
daggered past
daggered past participle
daggering present participle
daggers third person singular

Morphology

daggering = dagger (transparent) = dagger + ing

Present participle of the verb 'dagger' (to stab); form and meaning are morphologically regular and predictable.

Etymology

Daggering as a verb comes from dagger 'a small, sharp knife', so to dagger someone is to stab them with a dagger and daggering describes that action. So it simply means attacking by stabbing.