stabbing

causing physical or especially psychological injury

• “a stabbing remark”
• “few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child”
• “wounding and false charges of disloyalty”

as physically 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”