Mugging and Stabbing

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Mugging noun - Assault with intent to rob.

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Stabbing and mugging are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stabbing" instead a noun "Mugging".

Nearby Words: mugged, muggy, mugger

Stabbing adjective - Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument.

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Mugging and stabbing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Mugging" instead a noun "Stabbing".

Nearby Word: stabbed

For example, in the episode "Grow," a killer sets up a fake mugging to murder his brother, but kills him with an injection of poison under his tongue (to fake a heart attack), rather than just shooting or stabbing him like a mugger would do.

Source: Series / Law & Order: Criminal Intent

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