knife thrust

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knife thrust - a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument; "one strong stab to the heart killed him"

stab, thrust

blow - a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon; "a blow on the head"

passado, straight thrust, lunge - (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward

remise - (fencing) a second thrust made on the same lunge (as when your opponent fails to riposte)

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He had learned from experience that a knife thrust through this organ brought immediate death nine times out of ten, while he might stab an antagonist innumerable times in other places without even disabling him.

Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

The simple questions of the tattered man had been knife thrusts to him.

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