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SMARTING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore

Synonyms:

smart; smarting; smartness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("smarting" is a kind of...):

hurting; pain (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)

Derivation:

smart (be the source of pain)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb smart

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