'STING' definitions:

Definition of 'sting'

(from WordNet)
noun
A kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles" [syn: sting, stinging]
noun
A mental pain or distress; "a pang of conscience" [syn: pang, sting]
noun
A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin [syn: sting, bite, insect bite]
noun
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam]
verb
Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face" [syn: bite, sting, burn]
verb
Deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday" [syn: sting, bite, prick]
verb
Saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill" [syn: stick, sting]
verb
Cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin" [syn: prick, sting, twinge]
verb
Cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark stung her"

Definition of 'Sting'

From: GCIDE
  • Sting \Sting\, n. [AS. sting a sting. See Sting, v. t.]
  • 1. (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Bot.) 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach. [1913 Webster]
  • The sting of death is sin. --1 Cor. xv. 56. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging. "The lurking serpent's mortal sting." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A goad; incitement. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying. [1913 Webster]
  • Sting moth (Zool.), an Australian moth ({Doratifera vulnerans}) whose larva is armed, at each end of the body, with four tubercles bearing powerful stinging organs.
  • Sting ray. (Zool.) See under 6th Ray.
  • Sting winkle (Zool.), a spinose marine univalve shell of the genus Murex, as the European species ({Murex erinaceus}). See Illust. of Murex. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Sting'

From: GCIDE
  • Sting \Sting\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stung(Archaic Stang); p. pr. & vb. n. Stinging.] [AS. stingan; akin to Icel. & Sw. stinga, Dan. stinge, and probably to E. stick, v.t.; cf. Goth. usstiggan to put out, pluck out. Cf. Stick, v. t.]
  • 1. To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite. "Slander stings the brave." --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'sting'

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Acronyms for 'sting'

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