| Noun | 1. | sting - a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles"hurting, pain - a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension" | |
| 2. | sting - a mental pain or distress; "a pang of conscience"hurting, pain - a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension" | |
| 3. | sting - a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skinharm, hurt, injury, trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. | |
| 4. | sting - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless propertybunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, con sting operation - a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) swindle, cheat, rig - the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud" | |
| Verb | 1. | sting - cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face"nettle, urticate - sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation burn - feel hot or painful; "My eyes are burning" | |
| 2. | sting - deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday"pierce - make a hole into; "The needle pierced her flesh" | |
| 3. | sting - saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"force, thrust - impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him" | |
| 4. | sting - cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin"ache, hurt, suffer - feel physical pain; "Were you hurting after the accident?" | |
| 5. | sting - cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark stung her"spite, wound, bruise, injure, offend, hurt - hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego" | |