Definitions for stung

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Spelling: [stuhng]

IPA: /stʌŋ/

Stung is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in stung (gnstu).

Definitions for stung

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

1. a simple past tense and past participle of sting.

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 stung

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 stung

If I had only stung him into being a man for a minute I would have abandoned it.

The point of the jest immediately became a sting, and stung my conscience.

Napoleon withdrew his hand as sharply as if a bee amid the fruit had stung him.

A gust of wind and sleet rushed through the opening and stung their faces.

That stung, and when McConnell approached Reid late Monday to strike a deal, he was rebuffed.

Wind from the top, twenty miles an hour, stung his faced, but he was sweating in his white snowsuit.

Comforting in that they show that our intended message hit the target and stung.

Still, the criticisms have stung, particularly in the age of post-Mitt Romney Mormon mainstreaming.

It stung her to hear her friends suspected of behaving unjustly.

Still, as Lennon/McCartney got increasingly arty, Harrison was stung and he began chasing.