sting

sting
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
v. smart, tingle; irritate, trouble, pain; bite, wound; nettle, gall, goad. See resentment. —n. wound, prickle, smart, irritation; stimulus, goad; stinger, prickle, nettle. See pain, pungency, sensibility.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [An injury]
Syn. wound, cut, sore, stab, bite; see also injury 1 .
2. [Pain]
Syn. prick, bite, burn; see pain 2 .
v.
Syn. prick, prickle, tingle; see hurt 4 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)
I
n.
1. injury inflicted by insect or animal bite, wound, venom, poison.
2. pain burning, tingling, smarting, soreness, hurt, irritation, twinge, pang, painful sensation.
3. police entrapment *sting operation, *come-on.
4. scam swindle, *con, *flimflam, *grift, *suckering.
II
v.
1. prick bite, wound, envenom, injure, burn, stick, infect, urticate, nettle.
2. hurt smart, burn, tingle.
3. make unhappy distress, hurt, cut to the quick, insult, cut, grieve, offend.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb 1. To cause to become sore or inflamed: burn, inflame, irritate. See HELP. 2. To feel or cause to feel a sensation of heat or discomfort: bite, burn, smart. See PAIN. 3. Slang. To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery: bilk, cheat, cozen, defraud, gull, mulct, rook, swindle, victimize. Informal: chisel, flimflam, take, trim. Slang: diddle1, do, gyp, stick. See HONEST. II noun 1. A sensation of physical discomfort occurring as the result of disease or injury: ache, pain, pang, prick, prickle, smart, soreness, stab, stitch, throe, twinge. Informal: misery. See PAIN. 2. A cutting quality: bite, edge, incisiveness, keenness, sharpness. See SHARP. 3. Informal A stimulating or intoxicating effect: Informal: punch, wallop. Slang: kick. See DRUGS.

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