• 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"

'Sting' in other languages