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sting

English

🔊 operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
“the police conducted a sting operation”
🔊 a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
🔊 a kind of pain
“the sting of death”
🔊 a mental pain or distress
“a pang of conscience”
🔊 a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
🔊 deliver a sting to
“A bee stung my arm yesterday”
🔊 cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
“His remark stung her”
🔊 saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
“They stuck me with the dinner bill”
🔊 cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
“The sun burned his face”
🔊 cause a stinging pain
“The needle pricked his skin”