sting
1. a kind of pain;
something as sudden and painful as being stung (Freq. 2)
- the sting of death
- he felt the stinging of nettles
• Syn:
stinging
• Derivationally related forms:
sting (for: stinging)
• Hypernyms:
pain, hurting
2. a mental pain or distress
- a pang of conscience
• Syn:
pang
• Hypernyms:
pain, hurting
3. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
• Syn:
bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con,
confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, flimflam
• Derivationally related forms:
flim-flam (for: flimflam), gyp (for: gyp), con (for: con), bunco (for: bunco)
• Hypernyms:
swindle, cheat, rig
• Hyponyms:
sting operation
4. a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
• Syn:
bite, insect bite
• Derivationally related forms:
bite (for: bite)
• Hypernyms:
injury, hurt, harm, trauma
• Hyponyms:
bee sting, flea bite, mosquito bite
1. cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort (Freq. 1)
- The sun burned his face
• Syn:
bite, burn
• Derivationally related forms:
burn (for: burn), stinger
• Hypernyms:
ache, smart, hurt
• Hyponyms:
nettle, urticate
• Verb Group:
burn
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
2. deliver a sting to (Freq. 1)
- A bee stung my arm yesterday
• Syn:
bite, prick
• Derivationally related forms:
bite (for: bite), stinger
• Hypernyms:
pierce
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
3. saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous (Freq. 1)
- They stuck me with the dinner bill
- I was stung with a huge tax bill
• Syn:
stick
• Hypernyms:
force, thrust
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody with something
4. cause a stinging pain
- The needle pricked his skin
• Syn:
prick, twinge
• Derivationally related forms:
twinge (for: twinge), stinger, stinging
• Hypernyms:
hurt, ache, suffer
• Hyponyms:
prickle, prick
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
5. cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
- His remark stung her
• Derivationally related forms:
stinger, stinging
• Hypernyms:
hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- The performance is likely to sting Sue
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