stinging

Plural: stingings

Noun

• a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
  • "he felt the stinging of nettles"
• The act by which someone receives a sting.

Verb

• cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
• deliver a sting to
• saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
• cause a stinging pain
• cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
• present participle and gerund of sting

Adjective Satellite

• (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
  • "a stinging comment"

Adj

• Having the capacity to sting.
• Precise and hurtful.

Synonyms

bite, burn, cutting, edged, prick, stick, sting, twinge

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