sting

sting is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.
2. transitive verb. A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
3. transitive verb. Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
4. transitive verb. The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
5. transitive verb. A goad; incitement.
6. transitive verb. The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
7. transitive verb. To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
8. transitive verb. To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
9. transitive verb. To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
10. noun. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

    Synonyms: bunco, bunko, con, flimflam, gyp, hustle

11. noun. a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

    Synonyms: bite

12. noun. a mental pain or distress

    "a pang of conscience"

    Synonyms: pang

13. noun. a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung

    "the sting of death"

    "he felt the stinging of nettles"

    Synonyms: stinging

14. verb. saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous

    "They stuck me with the dinner bill"

    "I was stung with a huge tax bill"

    Synonyms: stick

15. verb. deliver a sting to

    "A bee stung my arm yesterday"

    Synonyms: bite, prick

16. verb. cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging

    "His remark stung her"

17. verb. cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

    "The sun burned his face"

    Synonyms: bite, burn

18. verb. cause a stinging pain

    "The needle pricked his skin"

    Synonyms: prick, twinge

Synonyms

bunco, bunko, con, flimflam, gyp, hustle, bite, pang, stinging, stick, prick, burn, twinge

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sting:

tings

Common word forms

stings, stinger, stinges, stinging, stingless

Words from these letters

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