Usually means: Painful sensation from sharp contact.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. sting: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sting: Merriam-Webster
  3. sting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sting: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sting: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sting, sting: Wordnik
  8. sting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sting: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. STing, sting: Wiktionary
  11. sting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. sting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. sting: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. sting: Dictionary.com
  15. sting (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. sting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. STING, Sting (EP), Sting (Eric Saade song), Sting (Middle-earth), Sting (Stellar song), Sting (biology), Sting (disambiguation), Sting (fixture), Sting (music), Sting (musical phrase), Sting (musician), Sting (percussion), Sting (singer), Sting (wrestler), Sting, The Sting (Futurama), The Sting (Gabriella Cilmi album), The Sting (The Office), The Sting (Wu-Tang Clan album), The Sting (musical), The Sting, The Sting, The sting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Sting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. sting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. sting: Rhymezone
  21. sting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. sting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. sting: FreeDictionary.org
  24. sting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. sting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. Sting: Who2
  27. sting: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sting: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Sting (Gordon Sumner), Sting (artist), Sting (disambiguation), Sting (music), Sting (musician), Sting (singer), sting: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. STING: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Sting (Gordon Sumner), Sting (artist), Sting (biology), Sting (music), Sting (musician), Sting (singer), sting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. sting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Sting (Gordon Sumner), Sting (artist), Sting (biology), Sting (music), Sting (musician), Sting (singer), sting: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. STING: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. sting: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sting, sting: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Sting, sting: Urban Dictionary
  3. Sting: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
noun:  A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.
noun:  A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
noun:  A sharp, localized pain primarily on the epidermis.
noun:  (botany) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
noun:  The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
noun:  (law enforcement) A police operation in which the police pretend to engage in criminal activity in order to catch a criminal.
noun:  A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
noun:  A brief sequence of music used in films, TV, and video games as a form of scenic punctuation or to identify the broadcasting station.
noun:  A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
noun:  (figurative) The harmful or painful part of something.
noun:  A goad; incitement.
noun:  The concluding point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
verb:  (transitive, of an insect or arachnid) To puncture with the stinger.
verb:  (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain (physically or emotionally).
verb:  (figurative) To cause harm or pain to.
noun:  Storytelling in the context of a tabletop role-playing game, especially one published by White Wolf.

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