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    • sting :a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
      • the sting of death|he felt the stinging of nettles

    • sting :cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
      • The sun burned his face

    • sting :a mental pain or distress
      • a pang of conscience

    • sting :deliver a sting to
      • A bee stung my arm yesterday

    • sting :saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
      • They stuck me with the dinner bill|I was stung with a huge tax bill

    • sting :cause a stinging pain
      • The needle pricked his skin

    • sting :operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
      • the police conducted a sting operation

    • sting :cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
      • His remark stung her

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