sting
sting
- n a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
the sting of death
he felt the stinging of nettles - n a mental pain or distress
- n a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- n a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- v cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- v deliver a sting to
- v saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- v cause a stinging pain
- v cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
- A media sting operation gone awry revives a debate on media regulation.
- India Edwards, the gabby, gregarious queen bee of the Democratic National Committee's women's division, buzzed into Missouri to sting Republican Senator Forrest Donnell, who is.
- In a recent sting operation in Texas, an undercover officer was offered $200 by a prisoner for a cell phone and only $50 for heroin.