knifelike
adjEtymology From knife + -like.
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Resembling a knife or its effects.
- The patient reported a knifelike pain in his abdomen.
- I hated the man at once. I lost not a moment. I darted my eyes across the table, caught his, and stabbed him with one of those withering knifelike glances that only the descendants of the great can inflict.1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major: