Word: stings
Category: stings
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Related words: stings
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Synonyms: stings
prick, wound, injury, puncture, smart, pricking, pain, soreness, hurt, irritation, heartache, heartbreak, agony, torture, torment, anguish, sharpness, severity, bite, edge, pointedness, asperity, sarcasm, acrimony, malice, spite, venom, swindle, fraud, deception, trickery, sharp practice, rip-off, con, fiddle, bunco, insect bite, flimflam, confidence game, hustle, confidence trick, bunko, gyp, con game, pang, stinging
Translations: stings
The meaning and "use of": stings
- a small sharp-pointed organ at the end of the abdomen of bees, wasps, ants, and scorpions, capable of inflicting a painful or dangerous wound by injecting poison. - The poor fellow has neither the tusks of the elephant, nor the claws of the lion, nor even the horns or pointed teeth or stings and poison glands.
- a carefully planned operation, typically one involving deception. - five blackmailers were jailed last week after they were snared in a police sting
- wound or pierce with a sting. - he was stung by a jellyfish
- feel or cause to feel a sharp tingling or burning pain or sensation. - her eyes stung
- swindle or exorbitantly overcharge (someone). - an elaborate fraud that stung a bank for thousands
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