Are you trying to hyphenate sting? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.
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A kind of pain Something as sudden and painful as being stung The sting of death He felt the stinging of nettles |
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A mental pain or distress A pang of conscience |
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A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin |
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A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property |
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Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort The sun burned his face |
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Deliver a sting to A bee stung my arm yesterday |
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Saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous They stuck me with the dinner bill I was stung with a huge tax bill |
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Cause a stinging pain The needle pricked his skin |
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Cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging His remark stung her |
| noun | stinging, pain, hurting |
| noun | pang, pain, hurting |
| noun | bite, insect bite, injury, hurt, harm, trauma |
| noun | bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, flimflam, swindle, cheat, rig |
| verb | bite, burn, ache, smart, hurt |
| verb | bite, prick, pierce |
| verb | stick, force, thrust |
| verb | prick, twinge, hurt, ache, suffer |
| verb | hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite |