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