| verb | cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort “The sun burned his face” |
| verb | deliver a sting to “A bee stung my arm yesterday” |
| verb | saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous “They stuck me with the dinner bill” |
| verb | cause a stinging pain “The needle pricked his skin” |
| verb | cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging “His remark stung her” |
| adjective | aroused to impatience or anger “made an irritated gesture” |
| sting | noun | a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung |
| stinger | noun | a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland |
| burn | noun | pain that feels hot as if it were on fire |
| bite | noun | a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin |
| stinging | noun | a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung |
| twinge | noun | a sharp stab of pain |