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/smˈɑrtɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Smart v. t. To cause a smart in. "A goad that... smarts the flesh."

Smart v. i. (past & past part. smarted; pres. part. smarting)

To feel a lively, pungent local pain; said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.

To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil; as, the team is still smarting from its loss of the championship. "No creature smarts so little as a fool." "He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it."

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Etymology of 'Smarting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Smarting" Quotes from Famous Books

... smarting. When I told the other boys they were indignant, and a good deal alarmed on their own account. I made my case against the Company as damning as I could, then, slinging my blankets on my back, set off once ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

... the situation clearly. As he was just smarting acutely under his defeat, this speaks little for the clearness of his mind. The shadow of that defeat lay across everything, blotted out the light of his pride, shaded his honour, threw everything into a new perspective. The rich prettiness of his love-making ...

— Love and Mr. Lewisham • H. G. Wells

... already counted the smarting throbbings of your fathers' hearts—ah! ah! how it sigheth! how it laugheth in its dream! the ...

— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche

... breadth, and broken one of his horns short off against the stone wall. On this mishap, he bellowed so intolerably that a part of the labyrinth tumbled down, and all the inhabitants of Crete mistook the noise for an uncommonly heavy thunder storm. Smarting with the pain, he galloped around the open space in so ridiculous a way that Theseus laughed at it, long afterwards, though not precisely at the moment. After this, the two antagonists stood valiantly ...

— Tanglewood Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... changes it promised, the President's order provoked surprisingly little public opposition. Its publication coincided with the convening of the special session of a Congress smarting under Truman's "do-nothing" label. In this charged political atmosphere, the anti-administration majority in Congress quietly sidestepped the President's 27 July call for civil rights legislation. To do otherwise would only have added to the political ...

— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.

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