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Definition of 'STING'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) sting
to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.

2.  sting
to affect painfully or irritatingly as a result of contact, as certain plants do.

3.  sting
to cause to smart or to feel a sharp pain.

4.  sting
to cause mental or moral anguish.

5.  sting
to goad or drive, as by sharp irritation.

6.  sting
Slang. to cheat or take advantage of, esp. to overcharge; soak.

7. (v.i.) sting
to use, have, or wound with a sting, as bees.

8.  sting
to cause a sharp, smarting pain.

9.  sting
to cause or feel acute mental pain or irritation:
The memory of that insult still stings.

10.  sting
to feel a smarting pain, as from a blow or the sting of an insect.

11. (n.) sting
an act or an instance of stinging.

12.  sting
a wound, pain, or smart caused by stinging.

13.  sting
any sharp physical or mental wound, hurt, or pain.

14.  sting
anything or an element in anything that wounds, pains, or irritates.

15.  sting
capacity to wound or pain:
Satire has a sting.

16.  sting
a sharp stimulus or incitement.

17.  sting
any of various sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organs of insects or other animals.

18.  sting
Slang.

19.  sting
an ostensibly illegal operation, as the buying of stolen goods, used by undercover investigators to collect evidence of wrongdoing.

Etymology: (bef. 900; OE stingan, c. ON stinga to pierce)

Definition of 'STING'

Princeton's WordNet

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

2. (noun) pang, sting
a mental pain or distress
"a pang of conscience"

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

4. (verb) bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam
a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

5. (verb) bite, sting, burn
cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
"The sun burned his face"

6. (verb) sting, bite, prick
deliver a sting to
"A bee stung my arm yesterday"

7. (verb) stick, sting
saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
"They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"

8. (verb) prick, sting, twinge
cause a stinging pain
"The needle pricked his skin"

9. (verb) sting
cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
"His remark stung her"

Definition of 'STING'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) sting
(of an insect or animal) to prick skin with poison
nettles that sting; I was stung by a wasp.

2.  sting
to be or cause to be painful with a burning sensation
The needle will sting your arm a little as it goes in.; Hay fever can make people's eyes sting.

3.  sting
to upset
His words stung me.

4. (noun) sting
a painful spot where an insect or animal stings you
a bee/wasp sting

5.  sting
a painful feeling on your skin
the sting of the cold wind

Definition of 'STING'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) STING
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

2. (verb) STING
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

3. (verb) STING
anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach

4. (verb) STING
the thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging

5. (verb) STING
a goad; incitement

6. (verb) STING
the point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying

7. (verb) STING
to pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands

8. (verb) STING
to pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite

9. (verb) STING
to goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches

Translation of 'STING'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a part of some plants, insects etc, eg nettles and wasps, that can prick and inject an irritating or poisonous fluid into the wound.
Afrikaans: angel	Arabic: إبْرَه	Bulgarian: жила
Brazilian: ferrão	Czech: žihadlo	German: der Stachel
Danish: hår; brod	Greek: κεντρί	Spanish: aguijón
Estonian: astel	Farsi: خار	Finnish: piikki, pistin
French: piquant, dard	Hebrew: עוֹקֶץ	Hindi: डंक, दंश
Croatian: žalac, bodljika	Hungarian: fullánk	Indonesian: sengat
Icelandic: broddur	Italian: pungiglione, aculeo	Japanese: とげ
Korean: 침	Lithuanian: geluonis	Latvian: dzelonis
Malay: sengat	Dutch: angel	Norwegian: brodd; neslehår
Polish: żądło	Portuguese: ferrão	Romanian: ac (la unele insecte/plan
Russian: жгучий волосок; жало	Slovak: žihadlo	Slovenian: bodica;želo
Serbian: žaoka	Swedish: gadd, brännhår	Thai: แผลถูกแมลงกัดต่อย
Turkish: iğne	Taiwanese: 螫針，刺	Ukrainian: жало
Urdu: ڈنک	Vietnamese: vòi, răng độc	Chinese: 螫针，刺
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