Sting Synonyms

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Synonyms for Sting

To cause someone to feel a prickle.

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A persistent or sharply painful feeling of sorrow or remorse.

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To feel such a pain.

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To sting with or as if with a nettle.

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To cause (the skin) to redden or grow hot, as from strong emotion or stimulants.

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To persuade or induce to do something by cajoling or wheedling.

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Defraud is defined as to use illegal means or deception to trick someone, usually to obtain money.

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(Slang) To play experimentally; toy:

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To penetrate (to, into, or through something)

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A wound, bruise, or sting from biting

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A wound made by piercing with a knife, dagger, or other pointed weapon

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(Pejorative, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.

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A deception; a swindle.

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(Often pluralized) paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; sudden and transitory agony; throe

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To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.

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An injury to a plant caused by cutting, scraping, or other external force

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A stinging sensation.

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To have a prickling or stinging feeling, as from cold, a sharp slap, excitement, etc.

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To deprive of or destroy the effect of through error or ignorance

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To cheat out of money:

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The style in which a garment is cut:

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The definition of a sore is a painful spot on the body or something that causes annoyance, irritation or grief.

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The definition of irritate is to aggravate or annoy, or to cause itchiness, inflammation or discomfort in or on the body.

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To elude.

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Gull is defined as to trick.

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To punish by a fine or by depriving of something

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To swindle, cheat, defraud, etc.

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To defraud (someone).

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To dupe or cheat

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To work something with a chisel.

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(Intransitive) To habituate to or gain competency at a task.

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To take place; happen:

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An ache is defined as a feeling of sadness or of wanting something very badly.

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The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.

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A condition of great wretchedness or suffering because of pain, sorrow, poverty, etc.; distress

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To push or jab at, as with a finger or an arm; prod.

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(Informal) A swindle, esp. at a card game or lottery; confidence game

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a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

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A swindle.

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confidence game

A swindle in which the victim is defrauded after his or her confidence has been won.

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A swindle in which the mark, or victim, is defrauded after his or her trust has been won.

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The act of hustling; esp., rough jostling or shoving

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To pierce, puncture, or penetrate with a pointed instrument:

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A stitch is defined as a loop of thread or yarn used to close a wound or fabric, or a tiny item of clothing, or a sudden sharp pain in your side that results from exercise.

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The quality or state of being incisive; incisivity.

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Eagerness or enthusiasm

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(Of an image) distinctness, focus

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(Countable) A hole or opening created with a punch

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A person's ability to throw such punches.

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A kicked ball.

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To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.

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To sound with a loud ringing

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Alternative spelling of bunco.

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confidence-trick

A method of cheating somebody by winning their confidence and inducing them to hand over money (other valuables).

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insect bite

a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

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To cause to feel an itch.

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Keenness, as of desire or enjoyment; zest:

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a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

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Words Related to Sting

(Informal) A source of annoyance; a nuisance:

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A particular form of hurt, damage, or loss:

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The definition of hurt is feeling physical pain, or to cause someone or something to experience physical pain or to cause harm.

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(Intransitive) To provide assistance.

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(Informal) Honestly; truly

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(Informal) An expert.

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Plural form of drug

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Find another word for sting. In this page you can discover 70 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sting, like: pain, prickle, prick, smart, nettle, injury, venom, inflame, cozen, defraud and diddle.