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STINGING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
Example:
he felt the stinging of nettles
Synonyms:
sting; stinging
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("stinging" is a kind of...):
hurting; pain (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)
Derivation:
sting (cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging)
sting (cause a stinging pain)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
Example:
a stinging comment
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
unkind (lacking kindness)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb sting
Context examples:
The next moment, angry with himself for the boast, he had gripped the arms of the chair so savagely that every finger-end was stinging.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But now that her fierce wolves and her wild crows and her stinging bees were gone, and her slaves had been scared away by the Cowardly Lion, she saw there was only one way left to destroy Dorothy and her friends.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
What had just passed; what Mrs. Reed had said concerning me to Mr. Brocklehurst; the whole tenor of their conversation, was recent, raw, and stinging in my mind; I had felt every word as acutely as I had heard it plainly, and a passion of resentment fomented now within me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
If he turned upon them, Mit-sah would throw the stinging lash of the whip into his face.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
An orally available capsule-based nutritional supplement containing indole-3-carbinol, calcium-D-glucarate, Schizandra, vitamin D3, milk thistle, stinging nettle and hydroxymatairesinol (HMR) lignans, with potential estrogen modulating, antiproliferative and antioxidant activity.
(Indole-3-Carbinol/Calcium/Schizandra/Vitamin D3/Milk Thistle/Stinging Nettle/Lignan-Based Nutritional Capsule, NCI Thesaurus)
He had entitled the story Adventure, and it was the apotheosis of adventure—not of the adventure of the storybooks, but of real adventure, the savage taskmaster, awful of punishment and awful of reward, faithless and whimsical, demanding terrible patience and heartbreaking days and nights of toil, offering the blazing sunlight glory or dark death at the end of thirst and famine or of the long drag and monstrous delirium of rotting fever, through blood and sweat and stinging insects leading up by long chains of petty and ignoble contacts to royal culminations and lordly achievements.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
As he had read pessimism into Omar, so now he read triumph, stinging triumph and exultation, into Swinburne’s lines.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He could feel the pricking and stinging of the old anger as it strove to rise up in him, but it strove against love.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Indole-3-carbinol, found in vegetables of the Cruciferae family, may inhibit mammary cell growth and exerts antiestrogenic activity; Milk thistle (Silybum marianum) and Schizandra chinensis may enhance some of the phase II detoxification enzymes; Calcium-D-glucarate and vitamin D3 may inhibit mammary cell growth; stinging nettle may exert its effect through its aromatase inhibiting activity; HMR lignans may have a beneficial effect on estrogen balance and levels.
(Indole-3-Carbinol/Calcium/Schizandra/Vitamin D3/Milk Thistle/Stinging Nettle/Lignan-Based Nutritional Capsule, NCI Thesaurus)
