1. to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
2. to affect painfully or irritatingly as a result of contact, as certain plants do: to be stung by nettles.
3. to cause to smart or to cause a sharp pain: The blowing sand stung his eyes.
4. to cause mental or moral anguish: to be stung with remorse.
5. to goad or drive, as by sharp irritation.
6. to cheat or take advantage of, especially to overcharge; soak.

7. to use, have, or wound with a sting, as bees.
8. to cause a sharp, smarting pain, as some plants, an acrid liquid or gas, or a slap or hit.
9. to cause acute mental pain or irritation, as annoying thoughts or one's conscience: The memory of that insult still stings.
10. to feel acute mental pain or irritation: He was stinging from the blow to his pride.
11. to feel a smarting pain, as from a blow or the sting of an insect:His cheeks stung from the hail.

12. an act or instance of stinging:The allergic reaction to a sting may be delayed for several hours.
13. a wound, pain, or smart caused by stinging:After an hour or so, the throbbing of the wasp sting subsided to a dull ache.
14. any sharp physical or mental wound, hurt, or pain:Laser treatment for wrinkles sounds like magic, but some people can’t tolerate the accompanying sting and burn.
15. anything or an element in anything that wounds, pains, or irritates: to feel the sting of defeat;Death, where is thy sting?
16. capacity to wound or pain: Satire has a sting.
17. a sharp stimulus or incitement: driven by the sting of jealousy;the sting of ambition.
18. a glandular hair on certain plants, as nettles, that emits an irritating fluid.
19. any of various sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organs of insects and other animals capable of inflicting painful or dangerous wounds.
20. Slang.
• confidence game.
• an ostensibly illegal operation, as the buying of stolen goods or the bribing of public officials, used by undercover investigators to collect evidence of wrongdoing.
21. a brief burst of music or a sound effect used to emphasize a moment of humor, drama, or fright in a show, or to punctuate a transition or another part of a show’s structure.

1. (of certain animals and plants) to inflict a wound on (an organism) by the injection of poison
2. to feel or cause to feel a sharp mental or physical pain
3. to goad or incite (esp in the phrase sting into action)
4. to cheat, esp by overcharging

5. a skin wound caused by the poison injected by certain insects or plants
6. pain caused by or as if by the sting of a plant or animal
7. a mental pain or pang
8. a sharp pointed organ, such as the ovipositor of a wasp, by which poison can be injected into the prey
9. the ability to sting
10. something as painful or swift of action as a sting
11. a sharp stimulus or incitement
12. botany another name for stinging hair
13. a swindle or fraud
14. a trap set up by the police to entice a person to commit a crime and thereby produce evidence
15. an unexpected and unpleasant ending

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