knifelike

English

Etymology

knife +‎ -like

Adjective

knifelike (comparative more knifelike, superlative most knifelike)

1. Resembling a knife or its effects.

   The patient reported a knifelike pain in his abdomen.

   • 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:

     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.