Sting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STING in dictionary:

VERB:
• to prick painfully
• wound or pierce with a sting
• feel or cause to feel a sharp tingling or burning pain or sensation
• (typically of something said) hurt or upset (someone)
• provoke someone to do (something) by causing annoyance or offence
• swindle or exorbitantly overcharge (someone)
• (of certain animals or plants) wound by injecting with poison
• Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.
• 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; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
• The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
• A goad; incitement.
• The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
• To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
• To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
• To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
• cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
• deliver a sting to
• saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
• cause a stinging pain
• cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
NOUN:
• a small sharp-pointed organ at the end of the abdomen of bees, wasps, ants, and scorpions, capable of inflicting a painful or dangerous wound by injecting poison.
• any of a number of minute hairs or other organs of plants, jellyfishes, etc., which inject a poisonous or irritating fluid when touched
• a wound from a sting
• a sharp tingling or burning pain or sensation
• a hurtful quality or effect
• a carefully planned operation, typically one involving deception
• a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
• a mental pain or distress
• a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect\'s stinger into skin
• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
• wound or pain caused by or as if by stinging

Words related to STING

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Words that contain STING

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How to use STING in a sentence

• I may receive the only real sting your lips have given, because I could not bear that pain without crying.
• I said this, that by familiarity it might lose a little of its sting when I heard it from other lips, but somehow it failed in efficacy.
• A comedy with a sting, she had called it, and the sting meant for Hermia, had poisoned the air with its venom.
• Yet instantly Flora saw, with a fiery inward sting, how beautiful pallor may be.
• Some of the sting was taken out of the indictment by the publication of an official statement showing that Great Britain was remaining there at the request of the Allies.
• Beauly, every one of them went through me like a sting.
• The incident, however, left a sting of vexation behind it.
• Nor was the sting of defeat lessened by the knowledge that it had been accomplished by the one man he had instinctively feared from his first meeting with him.
• The smoke from the larger fire rolled back with the wind, and Beatrice felt her eyes sting.
• In reading them we feel that the poet is writhing under some bitter mortification, and trying with concentrated malice to sting his adversary in the tenderest places.
• Though in felling the tree I had disturbed them considerably, none of them had come down to sting us, but now they filled the air.
• It removes the sting from the accident, and makes a man not to depend upon chance and the uncertain dispositions of men for his well-being, but only on God and his own spirit.
• But when the momentary sting had passed it cannot be said that he left camp with any fond regrets.
• Starr had not ridden two miles before his face began to feel the sting of gravel in the sand clouds.
• Every success of the hated is another stimulant to worry, and each step forward is a sting full of pain and bitterness.
• Duty? It pulled with more than one string, This way and that, and anyhow a sting.
• There is a hot scene, and more than one of the sailants feel the breath of flying lead, together with the sudden sting that tells of a burning wound.
• And it is true that sorrows are the consequences of sin inasmuch as the sting is taken out of them when our sins are forgiven and we love God.

Similar words containing ST without suffix ing

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