sting

Definitions of sting in various dictionaries:

noun - a kind of pain

noun - a mental pain or distress

noun - a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

noun - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

verb - cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

verb - deliver a sting to

verb - saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous

verb - cause a stinging pain

verb - cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging

To pierce or wound painfully with or as if with a sharp-pointed structure or organ, as that of certain insects.

To cause to feel a sharp, smarting pain by or as if by pricking with a sharp point: smoke stinging our eyes.

To cause to suffer keenly in the mind or feelings: Those harsh words stung me bitterly.

To spur on by or as if by sharp irritation.

To cheat or overcharge.

To have, use, or wound with or as if with a sharp-pointed structure or organ, as that of certain insects.

To cause or feel a sharp, smarting pain.

The act of stinging.

The wound or pain caused by or as if by stinging.

A sharp, piercing organ or part, often ejecting a venomous secretion, as the modified ovipositor of a bee or wasp or the spine of certain fishes.

A stinging power, quality, or capacity.

A keen stimulus or incitement; a goad or spur: the sting of curiosity.

Slang.

verb - to prick painfully