Definition of sting

"sting" in the noun sense

1. sting, stinging

a kind of pain something as sudden and painful as being stung

"the sting of death"

"he felt the stinging of nettles"

2. pang, sting

a mental pain or distress

"a pang of conscience"

3. sting, bite, insect bite

a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

4. bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, hustle, sting, flimflam

a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

5. sting, sting operation

operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act

"the police conducted a sting operation"

"sting" in the verb sense

1. bite, sting, burn

cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

"The sun burned his face"

2. sting, bite, prick

deliver a sting to

"A bee stung my arm yesterday"

3. stick, sting

saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous

"They stuck me with the dinner bill"

"I was stung with a huge tax bill"

4. prick, sting, twinge

cause a stinging pain

"The needle pricked his skin"

5. sting

cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging

"His remark stung her"

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Quotations for sting

Money answers everything,
Save a guilty conscience sting. [ Proverb ]

The world recedes; it disappears!
Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring:
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting? [ Pope ]

The sting of a reproach is the truth of it. [ Proverb ]

Misfortune, like a creditor severe.
But rises in demand for her delay;
She makes a scourge of past prosperity
To sting thee more and double thy distress. [ Young ]

The man who consecrates his hours
By vigorous effort, and an honest aim.
At once he draws the sting of life and death;
He walks with nature; and her paths are peace. [ Young ]

Be aware of a fine tongue, 'twill sting mortally. [ Proverb ]

What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? [ William Shakespeare ]

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. [ Bishop Horne ]

Poison lurks in the tail; or, there is a sting in the tail. [ Proverb ]

Though you stroke the nettle ever so kindly, yet it will sting you. [ Proverb ]

Sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth but a sting in its tail. [ H. Ballou ]

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [ Tacitus ]

An asp would render its sting more venomous by dipping it into the heart of a coquette. [ Poincelot ]

Leave her to heaven and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, to prick and sting her. [ William Shakespeare ]

Cupid's bow is, the Asiatics tell us, strung with bees, which are apt to sting sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it. [ Miss Edgeworth ]

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. [ Victor Hugo ]

Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah ! there is the sting of life. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul. [ Tillotson ]

Speak with contempt of no man. Every one hath a tender sense of reputation. And every man hath a sting, which he may, if provoked too far, dart out at one time or other. [ Burton ]

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after. [ Bishop Hall ]

The powers of music are felt or known by all men, and are allowed to work strangely upon the mind and the body, the passions and the blood; to raise joy and grief; to give pleasure and pain; to cure diseases, and the mortal sting of the tarantula; to give motions to the feet as well as the heart; to compose disturbed thoughts; to assist and heighten devotion itself. [ Sir W. Temple ]

sting in Scrabble®

The word sting is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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sting in Words With Friends™

The word sting is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words containing the sequence sting

Words that end with sting (286 words)

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