"knifelike" meaning in English

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          "text": "The patient reported a knifelike pain in his abdomen.",
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          "text": "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.",
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        "Resembling a knife or its effects."
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