sting

/stˈɪŋ/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

verb

1. cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
   “The sun burned his face”
2. deliver a sting to
   “A bee stung my arm yesterday”
3. saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
   “They stuck me with the dinner bill”
4. cause a stinging pain
   “The needle pricked his skin”
5. cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
   “His remark stung her”

noun

1. a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
   “the sting of death”
2. a mental pain or distress
   “a pang of conscience”
3. a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
4. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
5. operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
   “the police conducted a sting operation”

Synonyms for sting

• bite
• burn
• prick
• stick
• twinge
• stinging
• pang
• insect bite
• bunco
• bunco game
• bunko
• bunko game
• con
• confidence trick
• confidence game
• con game
• hustle
• flimflam
• sting operation

Words that rhyme with sting

• swing
• string
• ring
• thing
• wing
• bring
• spring
• king
• sling
• fling
• ping
• ling
• sing
• wring
• cling
• colouring
• ding
• hamstring
• modeling
• offspring
• ting
• downswing
• modelling
• shoestring
• splattering
• wellspring
• zing
• coiling
• forewing
• pissing