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/smˈɑrtɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Smart v. t. To cause a smart in. "A goad that... smarts the flesh."

Smart v. i. (past & past part. smarted; pres. part. smarting)

To feel a lively, pungent local pain; said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.

To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil; as, the team is still smarting from its loss of the championship. "No creature smarts so little as a fool." "He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Smarting" Quotes from Famous Books

... please, but that sort o' medicine will certainly cure a certain brand o' love. It did more to convince me that I was not grown than anything else had ever done. From that day on I hated the sight of that man. All at once he looked to me as old as Santa Claus. I had a sort of smarting feeling every time I thought of him, and he did look ridiculous that night as he broke an' run across the yard with two of our dogs ...

— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben

... brushed his smarting eyes, lighted his pipe, and tilted back his chair. With his hands clasped behind his head, he fell into a waking dream, that familiar pastime of the creative mind. It was half after nine, and he had been writing steadily since seven. The scenario was done; ...

— Half a Rogue • Harold MacGrath

... fulfilled as quickly as that of Laura's there would be few unsatisfied people in the world, for before it was out of her mouth Billie uttered a sharp cry of pain, and, lifting a smarting ankle in her hand, ...

— Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island - The Mystery of the Wreck • Janet D. Wheeler

... The inhabitants of Madras, smarting under what may {260} fairly be called the treachery of Dupleix, considered rightly that they were no longer bound by the convention with the luckless La Bourdonnais. One at least of the inhabitants was a man not likely to be bound by ...

— A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4) • Justin McCarthy

... no critter so terrible as a man. All the animals know 'im—how he roars, an' spits fire an' smoke an' lead so it goes through a body er bites off a leg, mebbe. Guess they'd made friends with me but them I didn't kill went away smarting with holes in 'em. An' I guess they told all their people 'bout me—the terrible critter that walked on its hind legs an' lied a white face an' drew up an' spit 'is teeth into their vitals 'cross a ten-acre lot. An' putty soon they concluded they didn't want t' hev no truck ...

— Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country • Irving Bacheller

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