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src: wikipedia
- Definition
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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
- sting :a mental pain or distress
- 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