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Adjective stinging has 3 senses
- prickling, stinging, tingling - causing or experiencing a painful shivering feeling as from many tiny pricks; "a prickling blush of embarrassment"; "the tingling feeling in a foot that has gone to sleep"; "a stinging nettle"; "the stinging windblown sleet"
Antonym: painless (indirect, via painful)
- stinging - having a sting or the capacity to sting; "stinging insects"; "stinging nettles"
Antonym: stingless
- cutting, edged, stinging - (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character; "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"
Antonym: kind (indirect, via unkind)
Noun stinging has 1 sense
- sting, stinging - a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles"
--1 is a kind of pain, hurting
Verb sting has 5 senses
- bite, sting, burn - cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face"
--1 is one way to ache, smart, hurt
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- sting, bite, prick - deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday"
--2 is one way to pierce
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- stick, sting - saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"
--3 is one way to force, thrust
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody with something
- prick, sting, twinge - cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin"
--4 is one way to hurt, ache, suffer
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- sting - cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark stung her"
--5 is one way to hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to sting Sue
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