sting

1. A keen stimulus or incitement; a goad or spur: the sting of curiosity.

2. A sharp, piercing organ or part, often ejecting a venomous secretion, as the modified ovipositor of a bee or wasp or the spine of certain fishes.

3. A stinging power, quality, or capacity.

4. Slang A complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care, especially an operation organized and implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals.

5. The act of stinging.

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1. To cause such pain.

2. To feel a keen burning pain or smart.

3. To wound one with or as if with a sting.

4. To cause to suffer acutely .

5. To affect with sharp quick pain or smart .

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1. To cause or feel a sharp, smarting pain.

2. To have, use, or wound with or as if with a sharp-pointed structure or organ, as that of certain insects.

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1. Slang To cheat or overcharge.

2. To cause to feel a sharp, smarting pain by or as if by pricking with a sharp point: smoke stinging our eyes.

3. To cause to suffer keenly in the mind or feelings: Those harsh words stung me bitterly.

4. To pierce or wound painfully with or as if with a sharp-pointed structure or organ, as that of certain insects.

5. To spur on by or as if by sharp irritation.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
sting	6	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
gi	3
ti	2
in	2
is	2
it	2
si	2

3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
gin	4
tis	3
tin	3
sit	3
sin	3
sig	4
nit	3
its	3
ins	3
git	4
gis	4

4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
nits	4
gits	5
gist	5
sign	5
sing	5
snit	4
gins	5
ting	5
tins	4

5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
sting	6
tings	6