sting

• a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect´s stinger into skin
• cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
• deliver a sting to
• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
• a mental pain or distress
• cause a stinging pain
• saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
• A goad
• a kind of pain
• cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
• Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing
• 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
• Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental
• The thrust of a sting into the flesh
• The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying
• To pierce or wound with a sting
• To pain acutely
• To goad

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