Sting

[stɪŋ]

Definition

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

(noun.) a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; 'the sting of death'; 'he felt the stinging of nettles'.

(verb.) deliver a sting to; 'A bee stung my arm yesterday'.

(verb.) cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; 'His remark stung her'.

Typed by Gwendolyn--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.

(v. t.) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.

(v. t.) Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.

(v. t.) The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.

(v. t.) A goad; incitement.

(v. t.) The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.

(v. t.) To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.

(v. t.) To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.

(v. t.) To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.

Editor: Ned

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Prick, wound, hurt.[2]. Afflict, pain, cut to the quick, go to one's heart.

Edited by Hilda

Definition

v.t. to stick anything sharp into to pain acutely.—v.i. to have a sting: to give pain:—pa.t. and pa.p. stung.—n. the sharp-pointed weapon of some animals: the thrust of a sting into the flesh: anything that causes acute pain: any stimulus or impulse: the point in the last verse of an epigram.—n. Sting′er one who or that which stings.—adv. Sting′ingly with stinging.—adj. Sting′less having no sting.—n. Sting′-ray a genus of cartilaginous fishes of the order of Rays and family Trygonid the long tail bearing dorsally a long bi-serrated spine capable of giving an ugly wound.

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