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Stinging   /stˈɪŋɪŋ/   Listen
Stinging

adjective
1.
(of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character.  Synonyms: cutting, edged.  "Edged satire" , "A stinging comment"
noun
1.
A kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung.  Synonym: sting.  "He felt the stinging of nettles"


Sting

verb
(past stang; past part. stung; pres. part. stinging)
1.
Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort.  Synonyms: bite, burn.
2.
Deliver a sting to.  Synonyms: bite, prick.
3.
Saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous.  Synonym: stick.  "I was stung with a huge tax bill"
4.
Cause a stinging pain.  Synonyms: prick, twinge.
5.
Cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging.



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"Stinging" Quotes from Famous Books



... gate which ordinarily bars passengers from the tracks, but which that night had either been left open or opened by Roland. The wind, as I stepped from under the shelter of the station shed, was terrific: howling across the yards, stinging with sleet. It was very slippery under foot—I had to watch closely. And I was just a trifle nervous because here and there through the yards I could see lanterns—yard workers and track walkers, ...
— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen
... his eyelid and biting the corner of his eye. They also bite all round the nails of your fingers and toes, unless they are closely covered. It must be said that insects are a great discomfort at Sarawak. Mosquitoes, and sand-flies, and stinging flies which turn your hands into the likeness of boxing-gloves, infest the banks of the rivers, and the sea-shore. Flying bugs sometimes scent the air unpleasantly, and there are hornets in the woods whose sting is dangerous. When we ...
— Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak • Harriette McDougall
... great breath and dashed the stinging sweat from his eyes; and then, hardly seeing the barricade before him or the rifles that thrust out between the rocks, he put down his head and toiled on. Right on the rim, where the narrow trail nicked it, the gunmen had built a low wall and as he came on unheeding ...
— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge
... hesitate to attack the uncanny vine which bristles with such magical and almost miraculous defences. Moreover, the juice of the squirting cucumber is bitter and nauseous, and if it gets into the eyes or nostrils of man or beast, it impresses itself on the memory by stinging like red pepper. So the trick of squirting serves in a double way as a protection to the plant against the attacks of ...
— Science in Arcady • Grant Allen
... and woman staggered hand in hand and floundered in the deep snow. They were soaked to the skin, frozen by the cold, and whipped by the stinging hail. Though they bent their heads and bodies, though they clung hand in hand, though they struggled with all their strength, there were times when they could not advance a foot and must needs wait for a lull in the shelter of a porch. At such times the man would perhaps ...
— Clementina • A.E.W. Mason


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