smarting
s mor ting
- n a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
- v be the source of pain
- Nature was still smarting from the criticism that it lent credence to the whole messy business by publishing the report in the first place.
- Indeed, Blatter's allies say it is Johansson in failing health and still smarting from his 1998 defeat and uefa general secretary Gerhard Aigner who are the real powers .
- No less a break from abstract expressionism than pop art, op art is made tantalizing, eye-teasing, even eye-smarting by visual researchers using all the ingredients of an .