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Words related to sting

Related / Similar Words: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, flimflam, bite, insect bite, pang, stinging, stick, prick, burn, twinge

Definition:

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

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

a mental pain or distress; "a pang of conscience";

a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles";

saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill";

deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday";

cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark stung her";

cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face";

cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin";

Hyponyms: sting operation, bee sting, flea bite, mosquito bite, nettle, urticate, prickle, prick

Grouped Verbs: burn

Derivational Morphology: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con, bite, prick, twinge, burn, insect bite, stinger, pang, cut, stinging, burning

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