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IPA: /stɪŋ/

Sting is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in sting (ginst).

Definitions for sting

noun

1. an act or an instance of stinging.
2. a wound, pain, or smart caused by stinging.
3. any sharp physical or mental wound, hurt, or pain.
4. anything or an element in anything that wounds, pains, or irritates:
5. capacity to wound or pain:
6. a sharp stimulus or incitement:
7. Botany. a glandular hair on certain plants, as nettles, that emits an irritating fluid.
8. Zoology. any of various sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organs of insects and other animals capable of inflicting painful or dangerous wounds.
9. Slang. confidence game. an ostensibly illegal operation, as the buying of stolen goods or the bribing of public officials, used by undercover investigators to collect evidence of wrongdoing.

verb (used with object)

1. to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
2. to affect painfully or irritatingly as a result of contact, as certain plants do:
3. to cause to smart or to cause a sharp pain:
4. to cause mental or moral anguish:
5. to goad or drive, as by sharp irritation.
6. Slang. to cheat or take advantage of, especially to overcharge; soak.

verb (used without object)

1. to use, have, or wound with a sting, as bees.
2. to cause a sharp, smarting pain, as some plants, an acrid liquid or gas, or a slap or hit.
3. to cause acute mental pain or irritation, as annoying thoughts or one's conscience:
4. to feel acute mental pain or irritation:
5. to feel a smarting pain, as from a blow or the sting of an insect.

Origin of sting

before 900; (v.) Middle English stingen, Old English stingan to pierce; cognate with Old Norse stinga to pierce, Gothic -stangan (in usstangan to pull out); (noun) Middle English sting(e), Ol

Examples for sting

She met his gaze with a tenderness so great that the words lost all their sting.

Note to sting: An “albatross” in this context is more like “tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt.”

He has through His death taken from death his sting, so that I have no cause to fear him more.

sting took over the lead role to try to draw an audience, but his thumpingly inspirational score was already the hero of the show.

But this time there was a sting, of the sharpest, in the words themselves.

Now sting gets his turn, with this musical that he based on his own experiences growing up near a shipyard.

It was the insult more than the pain; and from her—there was the sting of it.

She died of the sting, and was lost to him in the Underworld.

And unless Republicans start pursuing very different priorities in Congress, that prognosis could sting.

Strangely, he did this by diluting the sting of the ant scene.