📖 Определения и значения для слова sting
📒 to touch your skin or make a very small hole in it so that you feel a sharp pain
- I was stung on the arm by a wasp.
- Be careful of the nettles—they sting!
📒 to feel, or to make somebody feel, a sharp pain in a part of their body
- I put some antiseptic on the cut and it stung for a moment.
- My eyes were stinging from the smoke.
- sting something Tears stung her eyes.
📒 to make somebody feel angry or upset
- sting somebody He was stung by their criticism.
- They launched a stinging attack on the government.
- sting somebody to/into something Their cruel remarks stung her into action.
📒 to charge somebody more money than they expected; to charge somebody who did not expect to pay
- I got stung for a £100 meal.
- How much did they sting you for?
📒 to borrow money from somebody
- Can I sting you for a couple of pounds?