Stinging is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STINGING in dictionary:

VERB:
• 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)
NOUN:
• the act of stinging
• 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
ADJECTIVE:
• painful, severe
• Piercing, or capable of piercing, with a sting; inflicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon; pungent; biting; as, stinging cold; a stinging rebuke.
• (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to prick painfully

Words related to STINGING

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Words that contain STINGING

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How to use STINGING in a sentence

• The sky was inky and a few wandering flakes of the now rapidly advancing storm came whirling in, biting my cheeks and stinging my forehead.
• The stinging lash had closed one of his eyes and his mouth was dripping blood.
• There were no clubs or stinging lashes out in that gloom.
• With grateful eyes he hands it back to me, and in the same moment I feel a stinging pain in the shoulder.
• I felt a sharp stab, followed instantly by a stinging sensation all along the bridge of the nose.
• I saw her gather the stinging nettles that grow there.
• Ivra gave them glad welcome in spite of their rough ways and stinging hair.
• Instead they raced down the hill behind her or before her, pushing and pulling, their stinging hair in her face.
• Drawing in deep draughts of the stinging autumn air, I felt happy and exhilarated.
• The very wind there by day is bright, now faint, now stinging, and makes a low, wiry music through the loose sprays, as if they were tense harp-strings.
• Next I became aware of stinging cheeks and nose, and could feel blood dripping on my face.
• The sand whirled, dry and stinging, about my bare feet in the wind.
• Its cold, stinging contact with his face refreshed him.
• Look at this wretch of a mosquito actually stinging through my glove.
• Leaden clouds, a sullen sea, and occasional puffs of a stinging breeze from the southwest, offered a sorry exchange for the sunny skies of Chile.
• After some stinging comments upon this speech, Sir Robert Peel wound up the debate in one of his most plausible parliamentary addresses.
• The air is full of stinging shot, and at ten yards the trees are invisible.
• Musquitoes swarm on every new settlement, and annoy every one by their stinging and raising inflamed spots over the body.
• I imagine they mean to shake our nerve by constant buzzing and stinging.
• What a fearful bitter night was that 8th of January! Through that stinging Arctic atmosphere came a goodly number with hearts on fire with the love of Jesus.
• He took that stinging medicine with the grit of a bulldog.
• I thought it was some deadly, stinging, biting thing.
• He opened his mouth, intent upon making a stinging retort.
• Striking it again, he reared, but received a stinging cut over the ears that brought him down.
• A picture of this formed in his thoughts and dissolved, leaving behind a faint stinging of his nerves.
• Instead, he received a stinging slap right on the end of his nose.

Similar words containing STING without suffix ing

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