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What is the difference between stabbing and stinging ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between stabbing and stinging ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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19 Jul 2019
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you could develop further, but basically stabbing as a verb is to directly hit someone with something in order to pierce them (although a stab does not have to necessarily pierce), and stinging can be done with a bee's or any other insect's stinger, or with a needle
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Do you mean as adjectives, verbs, or both?
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- English (US) Near fluent
- Portuguese (Brazil)
you could develop further, but basically stabbing as a verb is to directly hit someone with something in order to pierce them (although a stab does not have to necessarily pierce), and stinging can be done with a bee's or any other insect's stinger, or with a needle
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