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.

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