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sting

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

a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles"

deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday"

cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark stung her"

Synonyms:

• acerbity,
• acidity,
• acridity,
• acrimony,
• aculeus,
• acuminate,
• acumination,
• affect,
• afflict,
• affront,
• aggrieve,
• agonize,
• ail,
• anguish,
• astringency,
• auger,
• barb the dart,
• be keen,
• beat,
• beesting,
• beguile of,
• bilk,
• bit,
• bite,
• bite the tongue,
• bitterness,
• bleed,
• bleed white,
• borer,
• bristle with,
• bruise,
• bunco,
• burn,
• burning,
• burning pain,
• buzz,
• causticity,
• chafe,
• cheat,
• chisel,
• chouse,
• chouse out of,
• clip,
• cog,
• cog the dice,
• come home to,
• con,
• convulse,
• cozen,
• crib,
• crucify,
• cusp,
• cut,
• cut up,
• dart,
• defraud,
• diddle,
• distress,
• do in,
• do out of,
• drill,
• edge,
• euchre,
• excruciate,
• exploit,
• fang,
• fester,
• fierceness,
• finagle,
• fire,
• flam,
• fleece,
• flimflam,
• flog,
• fob,
• fret,
• fudge,
• gad,
• gadfly,
• gall,
• give offense,
• give pain,
• give umbrage,
• gnaw,
• go deep,
• go through one,
• goad,
• gouge,
• grate,
• grieve,
• grind,
• grip,
• gripe,
• gull,
• gyp,
• harrow,
• harshness,
• have,
• have an edge,
• hocus,
• hocus-pocus,
• hold up,
• hurt,
• hurt the feelings,
• inflame,
• inflict pain,
• injure,
• irritate,
• itch,
• keenness,
• kill by inches,
• lacerate,
• lash,
• martyr,
• martyrize,
• melt,
• melt the heart,
• mordacity,
• mordancy,
• move,
• mucro,
• mulct,
• neb,
• needle,
• nettle,
• nib,
• nip,
• nudge,
• offend,
• outrage,
• overcharge,
• overprice,
• overtax,
• oxgoad,
• pack the deal,
• pain,
• paresthesia,
• penetrate,
• pierce,
• pigeon,
• pinch,
• pins and needles,
• poignancy,
• point,
• poke,
• practice fraud upon,
• prick,
• prickle,
• prickles,
• prickling,
• prod,
• profiteer,
• prolong the agony,
• put to torture,
• rack,
• rankle,
• rasp,
• rigor,
• rip off,
• rob,
• rook,
• roughness,
• rowel,
• rub,
• scam,
• scratch,
• screw,
• sell gold bricks,
• severity,
• sharpness,
• shave,
• shortchange,
• skin,
• smart,
• smarting,
• snakebite,
• soak,
• soften,
• spur,
• stab,
• stack the cards,
• stick,
• stimulate,
• stinger,
• stinging,
• stir,
• stridency,
• stringency,
• surcharge,
• swindle,
• take a dive,
• tang,
• tartness,
• teeth,
• thimblerig,
• thrill,
• throw a fight,
• tingle,
• tingling,
• tip,
• torment,
• torture,
• touch,
• touch a chord,
• trenchancy,
• tweak,
• twist,
• twist the knife,
• urtication,
• vehemence,
• victimize,
• violence,
• virulence,
• whip,
• whiplash,
• wound,
• wring