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sting
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[ noun ] (medicine) a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
Synonyms Examples "the sting of death" "he felt the stinging of nettles" Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)It is the wages of sin , and its sting is the law . (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)She was biting into a small red radish ; and that action always caused her to lift her lip from the sting of the thing . |
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[ verb ] saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
Synonyms Examples "They stuck me with the dinner bill" "I was stung with a huge tax bill" Used in print (Patrick Dennis, Little Me....)After an unspeakable siege , lasting the better part of two months , it was announced that the studio '' owed `` the government a tax debt in_excess of eight million dollars while I , who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris ' helpless relict , was '' stung `` with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to '' wipe_out `` all_but a fraction of my poor , hard-come-by savings . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (medicine) a painful wound caused by the thrust of a stinger into skin
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[ noun ] (law,criminal law) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
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