sting

Noun

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

• a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

• a mental pain or distress
  • a pang of conscience
    

• a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
  • the sting of death
    
  • he felt the stinging of nettles
    

Verb

• cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
  • His remark stung her
    

• cause a stinging pain
  • The needle pricked his skin
    

• saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
  • They stuck me with the dinner bill
    
  • I was stung with a huge tax bill
    

• deliver a sting to
  • A bee stung my arm yesterday
    

• cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
  • The sun burned his face
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bite , insect bite , pang , stinging , prick , twinge , stick , burn