sting
noun
- 1
a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- 2
a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- 3
a mental pain or distress
a pang of conscience
- 4
a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
the sting of death
he felt the stinging of nettles
verb
- 1
saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
They stuck me with the dinner bill
I was stung with a huge tax bill
- 2
deliver a sting to
A bee stung my arm yesterday
- 3
cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
His remark stung her
- 4
cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
The sun burned his face
- 5
cause a stinging pain
The needle pricked his skin
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