Stinging

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Sting.

II. Stinging ·adj Piercing, or capable of piercing, with a sting; inflicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon; pungent; biting; as, stinging cold; a stinging rebuke.

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