Adjective
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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"
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causing physical or especially psychological injury
"a stabbing remark"
"wounding and false charges of disloyalty"