English to English
noun
- a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
The sting of death.
He felt the stinging of nettles.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a mental pain or distress
A pang of conscience.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
source: WordNet 3.0
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
source: WordNet 3.0
- Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.
source: Webster 1913
verb
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
The sun burned his face.
source: WordNet 3.0
- deliver a sting to
A bee stung my arm yesterday.
source: WordNet 3.0
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
They stuck me with the dinner bill.
I was stung with a huge tax bill.
source: WordNet 3.0
- cause a stinging pain
The needle pricked his skin.
source: WordNet 3.0
- cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
His remark stung her.
source: WordNet 3.0
- To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
noun
- [sting] Tibò; durò; tukâ; kagat
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
verb
- [stíng] Mátibò; mátukâ; mákagat
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
