verb
- Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort.
- usage: "The sun burned his face"
- Deliver a sting to.
- usage: "A bee stung my arm yesterday"
- Saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous.
- usage: "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"
- Cause a stinging pain.
- usage: "The needle pricked his skin"
- Cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging.
- usage: "His remark stung her"
- synonyms: sting
adjective
- Aroused to impatience or anger.
- usage: "made an irritated gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay"
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