stinging
has definitions from the field of medicine
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[ adjective ] causing or experiencing a painful shivering feeling as from many tiny pricks
Examples "a prickling blush of embarrassment" "the tingling feeling in a foot that has gone to sleep" "a stinging nettle" "the stinging windblown sleet" Used in print (Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)McBride staggered into the street , flopped sprawling in the stinging dust . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] having a sting or the capacity to sting
Examples "stinging insects" "stinging nettles" Related terms |
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