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Stinging   /stˈɪŋɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Sting  v. t.  (past stang; past part. stung; pres. part. stinging)  
1.
To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
2.
To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite. "Slander stings the brave."
3.
To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.


adjective
Stinging  adj.  Piercing, or capable of piercing, with a sting; inflicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon; pungent; biting; as, stinging cold; a stinging rebuke.
Stinging cell. (Zool.) Same as Lasso cell, under Lasso.





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"Stinging" Quotes from Famous Books



... but the animal, held firmly, reared so sharply that a little more and like a sling the fragile vehicle would have sent everybody in it flying far away. At this, furious with one of those plebeian rages which in women of her kind shatter all the veneer of their luxury, she dealt the Nabob two stinging lashes with her whip, which left little trace on his tanned and hardened face, but which brought there a ferocious expression, accentuated by the short nose which had turned white and was slit at the end like ...
— The Nabob • Alphonse Daudet
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... carven stone that says: "On this spot once Confucius stood and felt the smallness of the world below." The stone grows old: Eternity is not for stones. But I shall go down from this airy place, this swift white peace, this stinging exultation. And time will close about me, and my soul stir to the rhythm of the daily round. Yet, having known, life will not press so close, and always I shall feel time ravel thin about me; For once I stood In the ...
— The Second Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
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... and stows us into a two-seated sleigh, and off we're whirled, bells jinglin', for half a mile or so through the stinging mornin' air. Next thing I know, I'm bein' towed up to a desk and a hotel register is shoved at me. Just like an old-timer, I dashes off ...
— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford
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... her brow as if to prevent the thoughts from escaping. She closed her eyes and forced herself to live again through the events of the night. At last they came back to her, and the memory struck her like a stinging lash, so that she cowered on her bed, clutching the coverlet with her hands, and biting her handkerchief to keep herself from shrieking with horror ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
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... term applied to a gnat-like species of stinging insects, found chiefly in low marshy places and ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
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