Synonym: distress, inflame, pain, prick, wound. Similar words: stingy, fasting, testing, posting, boasting, existing, investing, exhausting. Meaning: [stɪŋ] 
n. 1. a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung 2. a mental pain or distress 3. a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin 4. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. v. 1. cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort 2. deliver a sting to 3. saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous 4. cause a stinging pain 5. cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging.
n. 1. a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung 2. a mental pain or distress 3. a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin 4. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. v. 1. cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort 2. deliver a sting to 3. saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous 4. cause a stinging pain 5. cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging. 
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(91) Even ten years later, he felt the sting of the rebuke, the motive for which he still fails to understand.
(92) Leaders also encourage creativity when they take the sting out of failure.
(93) The remedy can even be made into a paste and applied directly to the sting.
(94) The sting in the tail of the recent good weather has been noticed in the casualty units of at least two local hospitals.
(95) She and Sting were still on good terms - they actually sat beside each other throughout the court case, exchanging pleasantries.
(96) Pivoting on the slow death fulcrum, he felt the hot sting of his own blood spilling from him.
(97) She squeezed her eyes shut tightly, feeling the sting of tears behind her eyelids.
(98) A sting from one of these results in an extremely painful wound.
(99) A tenth of its state legislators may be indicted following a corruption sting.
(100) Middlesbrough, however, had taken the sting out of Leicester and were playing with more confidence and control at this stage.
(101) Not to want what couldn't be had no doubt took the sting from things.
(102) Instead of which she found herself having to blink away the sting of tears that blurred her vision.
(103) Besides, I thought it might sting you into giving me something on the Mallenders.
(104) For a human being a wasp or bee sting is always painful, but not necessarily serious.
(105) And there was a sting in the tail, he warned finally.
(106) The symptoms of poisoning are similar to those inflicted by the sting of a scorpion fish.
(107) They sleep six to a bed and wake up to the fiery sting of bug bites.
(108) Gabby felt tears sting her eyes, suddenly realizing the full force of what was happening.
(109) In other cases, they met or even anticipated the claims, drawing their sting in advance.
(110) I confess I did not see the sting in the tail coming.
(111) Voice over Coetzer must draw that sting to stand any chance of survival on Saturday.sentencedict.com
(112) My arms sting as if lighted matches had been stuck into my flesh, but my head and guts are absolutely intact.
(113) First, a media sting operation caught several senior government aides taking bribes from arms dealers.
(114) She stemmed the flow of tears that came, knowing they would sting his body.
(115) My stories from Lesbos seemed to carry a sting in the tail for both cultures.
(116) Plain and simple, LaPlante ran a sting operation on Flinn and entrapped her.
(117) Scorpions will only sting a person if threatened or if accidentally trodden on.
(118) Ideas buzz around like busy bees, but the sting that's left behind is always in the heart.
(119) Surely a Leo was more than a match for a Scorpio, nomatterhow deadly its sting.
(120) The sting of the catapult bullet had worn off.
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