| VERB | perception | sting, bite, burn | cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort |
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| contact | sting, bite, prick | deliver a sting to | |
| communication | sting, stick | saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous | |
| perception | sting, prick, twinge | cause a stinging pain | |
| emotion | sting | cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging | |
| NOUN | state | sting, stinging | a kind of pain |
| state | sting, pang | a mental pain or distress | |
| state | sting, bite, insect bite | a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin | |
| act | sting, bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, hustle, flimflam | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | |
| act | sting, sting operation | operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act |
| Sounds | stih'ng | |
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| Rhymes | abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng... | |
| Meaning | A kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung / stung / stung. | |
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| Synonym | stinging | |
| Broader | pain, hurting | A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder |
| Adjectives | stingless | without a sting |
| Verbs | sting | cause a stinging pain |
| sting | cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | |
| Meaning | A mental pain or distress. | |
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| Synonym | pang | |
| Broader | pain, hurting | A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder |
| Spanish | angustia, ansia, congoja, picor, remordimiento | |
| Verbs | sting | cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging |
| Meaning | A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin. | |
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| Synonyms | bite, insect bite | |
| Narrower | bee sting | A sting inflicted by a bee |
| flea bite | sting inflicted by a flea | |
| mosquito bite | A sting inflicted by a mosquito | |
| Broader | injury, hurt, harm, trauma | Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. |
| Spanish | picada, picadura, picotada, picotazo, piquetazo | |
| Catalan | pessigada, picada | |
| Verbs | sting | deliver a sting to |
| Meaning | A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. | |
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| Synonyms | bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, hustle, flimflam | |
| Narrower | sting operation | A complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) |
| Broader | swindle, cheat, rig | The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme |
| Spanish | bunco, bunko, camelo, engatusamiento, estafa, fraude, timo | |
| Catalan | bunco, bunko, entabanada, estafa, frau | |
| Meaning | Operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act. | |
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| Example | "the police conducted a sting operation" | |
| Synonym | sting operation | |
| Broader | operation | A planned activity involving many people performing various actions |
| Meaning | Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | bite, burn | |
| Narrower | nettle, urticate | sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation |
| Broader | ache, smart, hurt | Be the source of pain |
| Similar to | burn | Feel hot or painful |
| Spanish | abrasar, incendiar, quemar | |
| Catalan | abrusar-se, cremar-se, incendiar, mossegar-se, tallar-se | |
| Nouns | sting | a kind of pain |
| stinger | a sharp stinging blow | |
| stinger | a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland | |
| Meaning | deliver a sting to. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | bite, prick | |
| Broader | pierce | make a hole into |
| Spanish | morder, picar, pinchar | |
| Catalan | picar | |
| Nouns | sting | a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin |
| stinger | a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland | |
| Meaning | saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody with something | |
| Synonym | stick | |
| Broader | force, thrust | impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably |
| Spanish | cargar, encargarse de, picar, pinchar, punzar | |
| Catalan | picar, punxar | |
| Meaning | Cause a stinging pain. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | prick, twinge | |
| Narrower | prickle, prick | Cause a prickling sensation |
| Broader | hurt, ache, suffer | Feel physical pain |
| Spanish | escocer, picar | |
| Catalan | coure, picar | |
| Nouns | sting, stinging | a kind of pain |
| stinger | a sharp stinging blow | |
| stinger | a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland | |
| Meaning | Cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Model | The performance is likely to sting Sue | |
| Broader | hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite | hurt the feelings of |
| Nouns | sting | a mental pain or distress |
| stinger | a remark capable of wounding mentally | |
| stinging | a kind of pain | |
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