Synonyms of the word

sting

• n. A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
• n. A bite by an insect.
• n. A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
• n. A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermis.
• n. (botany) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
• n. The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
• n. (law enforcement) A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.
• n. A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
• n. A brief sequence of music used in films, TV, and video games as a form of punctuation in a dramatic or…
• n. A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
• n. (figuratively) The harmful or painful part of something.
• n. A goad; incitement.
• n. The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
• v. (transitive) To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
• v. (transitive, of an insect) To bite.
• v. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain.
• v. (figuratively) To cause harm or pain to.

ache

• v. (intransitive) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to…
• v. (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
• n. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
• n. (obsolete) Parsley.
• n. Rare spelling of aitch.

bite

• v. (transitive) To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
• v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
• v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
• v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some…
• v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
• v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be…
• v. (transitive) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
• v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so…
• v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
• v. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
• v. (intransitive, African American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
• n. The act of biting.
• n. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
• n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
• n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
• n. (slang) Something unpleasant.
• n. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
• n. A small meal or snack.
• n. (figuratively) aggression.
• n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of…
• n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
• n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
• n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else,…

bruise

• v. (transitive) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such…
• v. (transitive) To damage the skin of (fruit), in an analogous way.
• v. (intransitive) Of fruit, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
• v. (intransitive) To become bruised.
• v. (intransitive) To fight with the fists; to box.
• n. (medicine) A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that…
• n. A dark mark on fruit caused by a blow to its surface.

bunco

• n. (US, slang) A swindle or confidence trick.
• n. A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women…
• n. brigand.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, US, slang) To swindle (someone).

bunko

• n. Alternative spelling of bunco.
• v. Alternative spelling of bunco.

burn

• n. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
• n. A sensation resembling such an injury.
• n. The act of burning something.
• n. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
• n. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
• n. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
• n. (Britain, chiefly prison slang) tobacco.
• n. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
• n. A disease in vegetables; brand.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
• v. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
• v. (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
• v. (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
• v. (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
• v. (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals.
• v. (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.
• v. (transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect…
• v. (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
• v. (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat;…
• v. (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
• v. (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
• v. (transitive, slang) To betray.
• v. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To waste (time).
• v. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
• v. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
• v. (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
• v. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare…
• n. (Scotland, Northern England) A stream.

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

con

• v. (rare) To study, especially in order to gain knowledge of.
• v. (rare, archaic) To know, understand, acknowledge.
• v. Variant spelling of conn: to conduct the movements of a ship at sea.
• n. A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
• n. (computing) A reserved word in MS-DOS applications, likely an abbreviation for console.
• n. (slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.
• n. (slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal,…
• v. (transitive, slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
• v. (nautical) To give the necessary orders to the helmsman to steer a ship in the required direction through…
• n. (nautical) The navigational direction of a ship.
• n. An organized gathering such as a convention, conference or congress.

flimflam

• n. nonsense.
• n. deception.
• v. To swindle or cheat.

force

• n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or…
• n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
• n. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
• n. (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body…
• n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
• n. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving…
• n. (law) Legal validity.
• n. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
• n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, …) to…
• n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star…
• v. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
• v. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
• v. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
• v. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
• v. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
• v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to…
• v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return…
• v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
• v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
• v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
• v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
• n. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
• v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

gyp

• n. (pejorative, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
• n. Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).
• v. (pejorative, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately.
• n. (Cambridge and Durham, England) A college servant.
• n. (Cambridge and Durham, England) The room in which such college servants work.
• n. (Cambridge and Durham, England) A small kitchen for use by college students.
• n. Gypsophila.
• n. Pain or discomfort.

harm

• n. physical Injury; hurt; damage.
• n. emotional or figurative hurt.
• n. detriment; misfortune.
• n. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
• v. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

hurting

• v. present participle of hurt.
• n. A sensation that hurts.

hustle

• v. (intransitive) To rush or hurry.
• v. (transitive) To con or deceive; especially financially.
• v. (transitive) To bundle, to stow something quickly.
• v. To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
• v. To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
• v. To sell sex, to work as a pimp.
• v. To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
• v. (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
• v. To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.
• n. A state of busy activity.
• n. A type of disco dance.
• n. (prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn…

injure

• v. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
• v. (transitive) To damage or impair.
• v. (transitive) To do injustice to.

injury

• n. damage to the body of a human or animal.
• n. violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests.
• n. (archaic) injustice.
• v. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.

offend

• v. (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
• v. (intransitive) To feel or become offended, take insult.
• v. (transitive) To physically harm, pain.
• v. (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
• v. (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
• v. (transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

pain

• n. (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation,…
• n. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure;…
• n. (countable) An annoying person or thing.
• n. (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
• n. Labour; effort; pains.
• v. (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any…
• v. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

pang

• n. (often pluralized) paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; sudden and transitory agony; throe.
• n. (often pluralized) A sharp, sudden feeling of a mental or emotional nature, as of joy or sorrow.
• v. (transitive) to torment; to torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering.

pierce

• v. (transitive) to puncture; to break through.
• v. (transitive) to create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry.
• v. (transitive) to break or interrupt abruptly.
• v. (figuratively) To penetrate; to affect deeply.

prick

• n. A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
• n. An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
• n. (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
• n. (obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
• n. A small pointed object.
• n. The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
• n. (slang, vulgar) The penis.
• n. (slang, pejorative) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
• n. (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
• n. The footprint of a hare.
• n. (obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
• n. (obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
• v. (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
• v. (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
• v. (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
• v. (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to…
• v. (nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
• v. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
• v. To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an…
• v. (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular…
• v. (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
• v. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
• v. (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
• v. (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
• v. To aim at a point or mark.
• v. (obsolete) Usually as prick up: to dress; to prink.

rig

• n. (nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
• n. Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
• n. (US) A large truck such as a semi-tractor.
• n. The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
• n. (informal) A costume or an outfit.
• n. (slang, computing) A computer case, often modified for looks.
• n. An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
• n. (slang) Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
• v. (transitive) To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
• v. (transitive, informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
• v. (transitive) To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A ridge.
• n. (obsolete) A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
• n. (obsolete) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
• n. (obsolete) A blast of wind.

smart

• v. (intransitive) To hurt or sting.
• v. (transitive) To cause a smart or sting in.
• v. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
• adj. Causing sharp pain; stinging.
• adj. Sharp; keen; poignant.
• adj. Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
• adj. Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
• adj. (often in combination) Equipped with digital/computer technology.
• adj. Good-looking.
• adj. Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
• adj. Sudden and intense.
• adj. (US, Southern, dated) Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right.
• adj. (archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
• adj. (archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.
• adj. (archaic) Brisk; fresh.
• n. A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
• n. Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
• n. Smart-money.
• n. (slang, dated) A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.

spite

• n. Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire…
• n. (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
• v. (transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
• v. (transitive) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
• prep. Notwithstanding; despite.

stick

• n. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
• n. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
• n. Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
• n. A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
• n. (sports) A stick-like item.
• n. (sports, uncountable) Ability; specifically.
• n. (slang, dated) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking,…
• n. Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
• n. A measure.
• v. (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
• n. (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
• n. (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
• n. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
• v. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
• v. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
• v. (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
• v. (intransitive) To persist.
• v. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
• v. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
• v. (dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
• v. (dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
• v. (dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
• v. (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
• v. (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
• v. (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
• v. (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
• v. (transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.
• v. (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
• v. (transitive, printing, slang, dated) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
• v. (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by…
• v. (dated, transitive) To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.
• v. (transitive, slang, dated) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
• adj. (informal) Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.
• n. (Britain, uncountable) Criticism or ridicule.

stinging

• adj. Having the capacity to sting.
• v. present participle of sting.
• n. The act by which someone receives a sting.

suffer

• v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
• v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse.
• v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.

swindle

• v. (transitive) To defraud (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
• n. An instance of swindling.

thrust

• n. (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
• n. A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.).
• n. The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
• n. (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
• v. (intransitive) To make advance with force.
• v. (transitive) To force something upon someone.
• v. (transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
• v. (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
• v. (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
• v. To stab; to pierce; usually with through.

trauma

• n. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
• n. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
• n. An event that causes great distress.

twinge

• n. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
• n. A sudden sharp pain.
• v. (transitive) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
• v. (transitive) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
• v. (intransitive) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting…

wound

• n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
• n. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
• n. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
• v. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
• v. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.