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Antonyms for sting

Grammar : Verb
Spell : sting
Phonetic Transcription : stɪŋ

Definition of sting

Origin :
  • Old English stingan "to prick with a small point" (of weapons, insects, plants, etc.), from Proto-Germanic *stenganan (cf. Old Norse stinga, Old High German stungen "to prick," Gothic us-stagg "to prick out," Old High German stanga, German stange "pole, perch," German stengel "stalk, stem"), from PIE *stengh-, nasalized form of root *stegh- "to prick, sting" (cf. Old English stagga "stag," Greek stokhos "pointed stake"). Specialized to insects late 15c. Slang meaning "to cheat, swindle" is from 1812.
  • verb prick, pain
Example sentences :
  • But this time there was a sting, of the sharpest, in the words themselves.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • It was the insult more than the pain; and from her—there was the sting of it.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • He has through His death taken from death his sting, so that I have no cause to fear him more.
  • Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
  • She met his gaze with a tenderness so great that the words lost all their sting.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • She died of the sting, and was lost to him in the Underworld.
  • Extract from : « Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew » by Josephine Preston Peabody
  • But the others—even the last of them, two years before, had not had that sting.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • The point of the jest immediately became a sting, and stung my conscience.
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • The word seemed to sting me personally even more than the others.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • Narcisse must have felt the sting of the prelate's delicate sarcasm.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • And the sting of the situation lay in the fact that it had all been so useless and unnecessary.
  • Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr

Synonyms for sting

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