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Webster 1913 Edition


Stinging

Sting′ing

,
Adj.
Piercing, or capable of piercing, with a sting; inflicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon; pungent; biting;
as,
stinging
cold; a
stinging
rebuke.
Sting′ing-ly
,
adv.
Stinging cell
.
(Zool.)
Same as
Lasso cell
, under
Lasso
.

Definition 2024


stinging

stinging

English

Adjective

stinging (comparative more stinging, superlative most stinging)

  1. Having the capacity to sting.
    stinging nettles

Verb

stinging

  1. present participle of sting
    • 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
      The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. [] Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.

Noun

stinging (plural stingings)

  1. The act by which someone receives a sting.
    the stingings of scorpions
    stingings of remorse