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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



... the sting of the prelate's delicate sarcasm. At bottom, beneath this make-believe Florentine all-angelicalness, with long curly hair and mauve eyes which grew dim with rapture at sight of a Botticelli, there was a thoroughly practical, business-like young man, who took admirable care of his fortune ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... startled as if by a sting. He saw that some one had betrayed his plan to the officers. Even fur traders were standing under arms. To this day it is not known who secretly warned the fort of Pontiac's conspiracy; but the most ...
— Heroes of the Middle West - The French • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... Eschenhagen, who had recovered her breath by this time, felt the sting of these last words. It had not entered her thoughts that one betrothal had been broken in order that another might be arranged, but now the fearful ...
— The Northern Light • E. Werner
... Brian was fifteen years old; and the last words upon his tongue were an entreaty that his wife would never tell the boy of the suspicion that had turned her love to him into bitterness. He died, and part of the sting of his death to Mrs. Luttrell lay in the fact that he died thinking her mad on that one point. The doctors had called her conviction "a case of mania," and he had implicitly ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... man under endless disabilities, and then bids him to escape from the nexus if he can; but it reveals no divine helper, no sacrifice, no mediator, no regenerating Spirit. It has no glad tidings to proclaim, no comfort in sorrow, no victory over the sting of death, no resurrection unto Life. Though at a period subsequent to the preaching of the Gospel in India—perhaps the seventh or eighth century A.D.—a doctrine of faith (Bakti) was engrafted upon Hinduism, yet it had no hint of a Saviour ...
— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood


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