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sting Noun

— A sting is a pointed item at the rear of an insect, for defence. That wasp has a stinger! — A sting can also mean a bite by an insect. I got a sting on my arm. — By extension, a sting is a bump on the skin, the result of being stung. I will show you where I was stung.

sting Verb

— To sting means to inject venom with a stinger. That bee stung me. — By extension, to sting means to hurt or bite. I banged my hand: it really stung. — To swindle or con. (metaphor) I got stung for a lot of money.

sting

— noun (= stinging) 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 (= stick) saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous They stuck me with the dinner bill I was stung with a huge tax bill — verb (= burn) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort The sun burned his face — verb cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging His remark stung her — noun a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin — noun (= pang) a mental pain or distress a pang of conscience — verb (= prick) cause a stinging pain The needle pricked his skin — noun (= bunco) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Synonyms sting synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as sting?

sting English » English

bite prick stab smart hurt pierce burn stick twinge peck wound prod pinch stitch stinger pang jab cause pain tingle thrust stinging spear puncture prickle pain nip irritate thorn taunt spur spine shoot point pique itch insect bite fleece con cheat swindle shot sear quilt pin down pick overcharge offend injection hustle gyp

Topics sting topics

What do people use sting to talk about?
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Pain
Person Healthy Injure

Poison
Universe, creation Animal Parts of an animal

Parts of an insect
Universe, creation Animal

Animal actions
Person Healthy

Injure
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sad
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Beekeeping

Conjugation sting conjugation

How do you conjugate sting?

sting · verb

Examples sting examples

How do I use sting in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The bar was so smoky that my eyes started to sting.
Where did the bee sting you?
You see that I too have a spirit; but my spirit bears the sting of a scorpion.
I got a nasty sting from a wasp.
Do those insects sting?
I got a bee sting.
Do these insects sting?
Tom died from a scorpion sting.
A bee sting can be very painful.
Whose sting is more painful: a bee's or a wasp's?
If you don't bother the bees, they're unlikely to sting you.
Can a bee sting kill you?

Movie subtitles

Hey, you're bleeding! Does it sting?
This fly has a mighty sting, friend.
It removes the sting.
This ought to take the sting out of being occupied.
Now, this is gonna sting a little bit.
We'll finish the job with the sting from our tail.
If you step on them, they can sting just as bad as if they was alive.
They can sting you just as bad as live ones.
Did you ever hear a bee sting deemed fatal?
But know, thou noble youth, the serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown.
Do I have to calm down with a sting?
Can death have any sting for you?
I'll show him the wasp's sting!
And everywhere the lash of watchful taskmasters ready to sting the backs of the weary.
Its tail ends in a sixth joint, a sac from which poison is injected by barbed sting.
Now, this is going to sting a little bit.
This may sting.
If I be too waspish, best beware my sting.
Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting?
Removes the sting.
The slanderers sting their kindred like vipers.
Frankie, on my father's life, Until you realize our right to share the soccer pitch, we will continue to sting you, and sting you like a swarm of killer bees. Okay, okay, come on, come on.
It's a type of stinger. It removes the sting.
This sort of takes the sting out of being occupied, doesn't it?
The star Alkap, meaning the sting of death, was opposite the star Ashhala, meaning the heart. So, until the stars do not change their position, Emir should not touch a woman, or his death is imminent!
Does it still sting?
Did you feel the sting?
The sting, we'll tackle it together.
Does it sting?

News and current affairs

Of course, falling gas prices are occurring in Europe as well, and this will help take the sting out of the controversial VAT increase engineered by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
LONDON - If Socrates's gadfly was in Silicon Valley, it would have a lot of lazy horses to sting.
The uranium was seized in a sting operation.
The threat of sanctions remains potent, and the Iranian business community - not to mention the public - has felt the sting of isolation.
It would still have its full first-strike and retaliatory capacity, but, like a bee, it would be able to sting only once.
Mathematical whiz kids developed new financial instruments, which, by promising to rob debt of its sting, broke down the barriers of prudence and self-restraint.
But there is a sting in the tail.
The marketization of everything sharpens the sting of inequality.
The Iranian regime may benefit from the ouster or weakening of pro-Western Arab leaders and regimes in Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, but Iran's initial encouragement of the democratic uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt came with a sting in the tail.

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