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Sting   /stɪŋ/   Listen
Sting

noun
1.
A kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung.  Synonym: stinging.  "He felt the stinging of nettles"
2.
A mental pain or distress.  Synonym: pang.
3.
A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin.  Synonyms: bite, insect bite.
4.
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.  Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle.
verb
(past stang; past part. stung; pres. part. stinging)
1.
Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort.  Synonyms: bite, burn.
2.
Deliver a sting to.  Synonyms: bite, prick.
3.
Saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous.  Synonym: stick.  "I was stung with a huge tax bill"
4.
Cause a stinging pain.  Synonyms: prick, twinge.
5.
Cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging.



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"Sting" Quotes from Famous Books



... to bathe a while in divine eye-beams of flattering approval, then gave him a little sting to bring him to life. "You are pretty old, not to be married," she remarked. "I hope you won't find some woman to put an end to your high intentions, but men generally do. Men fall in love, and when they finally pull themselves out, they've ...
— Fran • John Breckenridge Ellis
... dead. A rattlesnake had given her its fatal sting, and the outcast, dreading all men and the coroner not the least, had, silently and alone, buried ...
— Bonaventure - A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana • George Washington Cable
... standing bareheaded now at the edge of the cliff, watching the flight of the bird. It was delightful to see the faint pink come back to her cheeks with the sting of the salt wind. Nevertheless, I had an idea in my mind that it was not wholly for her health's sake that Lady Angela walked abroad ...
— The Betrayal • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... of bacon, too, and lampreys, spring pickled tunny- fish, mackerel, and sting-ray; large fish, ...
— The Captiva and The Mostellaria • Plautus
... thought it was the Sequoia stage," he said to her. He turned a smoldering glance upon George Sea Otter. "George," he declared ominously, but with a sly wink that drew the sting from his words, "if you're anxious to hold down your job the next time a lady speaks to you and asks you a simple question, you answer yes or no and refrain from sarcastic remarks. Don't let your enthusiasm for this car run away with you." He faced the girl again. "Was it your intention to go ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne


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