Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
- 4transitive verb
The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
- 5transitive verb
A goad; incitement.
- 6transitive verb
The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
- 7transitive verb
To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
- 8transitive verb
To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
- 9transitive verb
To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
- 10noun
a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- 11noun
a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
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- 12noun
a mental pain or distress
"a pang of conscience"
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- 13noun
a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
"the sting of death"
"he felt the stinging of nettles"
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- 14verb
saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
"They stuck me with the dinner bill"
"I was stung with a huge tax bill"
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- 15verb
deliver a sting to
"A bee stung my arm yesterday"
- 16verb
cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
"His remark stung her"
- 17verb
cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
"The sun burned his face"
- 18verb
cause a stinging pain
"The needle pricked his skin"
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