Crossword-Solution: STING 5 letters, 250 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Sting	v. t.	Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.
Sting	v. t.	A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
Sting	v. t.	Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
Sting	v. t.	The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
Sting	v. t.	A goad; incitement.
Sting	v. t.	The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
Sting	v. t.	To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
Sting	v. t.	To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
Sting	v. t.	To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
STING	anagram	TINGS, TSING

We have 250 clues for the answer “STING”

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"American Hustle" action	1 answer
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Best picture Oscar winner with The	1 answer
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Cause of an allergic reaction, sometimes	1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ATREE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with STING (5)

Before the Gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seem’d Woman to the waste, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fould Voluminous and vast, a Serpent arm’d With mortal sting: about her middle round A cry of Hell Hounds never ceasing bark’d With wide _Cerberean_ mouths full loud, and rung A hideous Peal: yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturb’d thir noyse, into her woomb, And kennel there, yet there still bark’d and howl’d Within unseen.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: “If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!” The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: “If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Gabriel hoped that the whole truth of the matter might not be published till at any rate the girl had been in her grave for a few days, when the interposing barriers of earth and time, and a sense that the events had been somewhat shut into oblivion, would deaden the sting that revelation and invidious remark would have for Bathsheba just now.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Then one of them stooped down to stroke it, but the Serpent raised its head and put out its fangs and was about to sting the child to death.

The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992

But he knew not that the eye and hand were mine! With the superstition common to his brotherhood, he fancied himself given over to a fiend, to be tortured with frightful dreams and desperate thoughts, the sting of remorse and despair of pardon, as a foretaste of what awaits him beyond the grave.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with STING (3)

You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if I could.' I realized I was shaking as the words tumbled out of me. 'I would do it again and again. Every night I would torment you and laugh. Do you understand? You are never safe with me.' I drew a shuddering breath, trying to will away the sting of tears. He opened his eyes and stared up at me as if I were the door out of Arcadia and back to the true sky. 'That's what makes yo…

Rosamund Hodge Cruel Beauty

What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?""Because it all led me here to you.

Lisa Kleypas Sugar Daddy

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

Fernando Pessoa

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 295 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).