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sting
[ sting ]
verb (used with object)
- to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
- to affect painfully or irritatingly as a result of contact, as certain plants do:
to be stung by nettles.
- to cause to smart or to cause a sharp pain:
The blowing sand stung his eyes.
- to cause mental or moral anguish:
to be stung with remorse.
- to goad or drive, as by sharp irritation.
- Slang. to cheat or take advantage of, especially to overcharge; soak.
verb (used without object)
- to use, have, or wound with a sting, as bees.
- to cause a sharp, smarting pain, as some plants, an acrid liquid or gas, or a slap or hit.
- to cause acute mental pain or irritation, as annoying thoughts or one's conscience:
The memory of that insult still stings.
- to feel acute mental pain or irritation:
He was stinging from the blow to his pride.
- to feel a smarting pain, as from a blow or the sting of an insect:
His cheeks stung from the hail.
noun
- an act or instance of stinging:
The allergic reaction to a sting may be delayed for several hours.
- a wound, pain, or smart caused by stinging:
After an hour or so, the throbbing of the wasp sting subsided to a dull ache.
- any sharp physical or mental wound, hurt, or pain:
Laser treatment for wrinkles sounds like magic, but some people can鈥檛 tolerate the accompanying sting and burn.
- anything or an element in anything that wounds, pains, or irritates:
to feel the sting of defeat;
Death, where is thy sting?
- capacity to wound or pain:
Satire has a sting.
- a sharp stimulus or incitement:
driven by the sting of jealousy;
the sting of ambition.
- Botany. a glandular hair on certain plants, as nettles, that emits an irritating fluid.
- Zoology. any of various sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organs of insects and other animals capable of inflicting painful or dangerous wounds.
- Slang.
- an ostensibly illegal operation, as the buying of stolen goods or the bribing of public officials, used by undercover investigators to collect evidence of wrongdoing.
sting
/ 蝉迟瑟艐 /
verb
- (of certain animals and plants) to inflict a wound on (an organism) by the injection of poison
- to feel or cause to feel a sharp mental or physical pain
- tr to goad or incite (esp in the phrase sting into action )
- informal.tr to cheat, esp by overcharging
noun
- a skin wound caused by the poison injected by certain insects or plants
- pain caused by or as if by the sting of a plant or animal
- a mental pain or pang
a sting of conscience
- a sharp pointed organ, such as the ovipositor of a wasp, by which poison can be injected into the prey
- the ability to sting
a sharp sting in his criticism
- something as painful or swift of action as a sting
the sting of death
- a sharp stimulus or incitement
- botany another name for stinging hair
- slang.a swindle or fraud
- slang.a trap set up by the police to entice a person to commit a crime and thereby produce evidence
- sting in the tailan unexpected and unpleasant ending
Derived Forms
- 藞蝉迟颈苍驳颈苍驳濒测, adverb
- 藞蝉迟颈苍驳颈苍驳苍别蝉蝉, noun
- 藞蝉迟颈苍驳颈苍驳, adjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 蝉迟颈苍驳路颈苍驳路濒测 adverb
- 蝉迟颈苍驳路濒别蝉蝉 adjective
- 辞耻迟路蝉迟颈苍驳 verb (used with object) outstung outstinging
- 谤别路蝉迟颈苍驳 verb restung restinging
- 耻苍路蝉迟颈苍驳路颈苍驳 adjective
- 耻苍路蝉迟颈苍驳顎僫苍驳路濒测 adverb
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of sting1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of sting1
Idioms and Phrases
see take the sting out of .Example Sentences
The Clippers had two days off to recover from the sting of losing Game 4.
Despite the stinging rain and unpredictable winds, the friendly, laid-back crowd 鈥 a diverse bunch mostly made up of millennials and zoomers 鈥 seem perfectly content to wait their turn.
The method - called oral immunotherapy - is already proven to work for allergies to pollen, wasp and bee stings.
It was only a matter of time before he got stung.
Sarah Sherman's impersonation of Aimee Lou Wood on a recent episode of "Saturday Night Live" was gone in a flash, but that didn't lessen the sting for the star of "The White Lotus."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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