verb, noun
verb (stung, stung )
1 (of an insect or plant) to touch your skin or make a very small hole in it so that you feel a sharp pain:
[VN] I was stung on the arm by a wasp. * [V] Be careful of the nettles-they sting!
2 to feel, or to make sb feel, a sharp pain in a part of their body:
[V] I put some antiseptic on the cut and it stung for a moment. * My eyes were stinging from the smoke. * [VN] Tears stung her eyes.
3 [VN] ~ sb (to / into sth)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sting is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does sting appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — sting appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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