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Sting

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.

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Verb group 2

Burn 84% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Burn 84% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Broader term 22

Ache 76% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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Bruise 76% connected

To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…

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Cheat 76% connected

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

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Force 76% connected

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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Fraud 76% connected

Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injure…

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Harm 76% connected

Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

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Hurt 76% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Hurting 76% connected

of Hurt

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Injure 76% connected

To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…

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Injury 76% connected

Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong,…

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Offend 76% connected

To strike against; to attack; to assail.

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Operation 76% connected

The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

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Pain 76% connected

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

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Pierce 76% connected

To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.

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Rig 76% connected

A ridge.

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Smart 76% connected

To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.

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Spite 76% connected

Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.

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Suffer 76% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Swindle 76% connected

To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.

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Thrust 76% connected

Thrist.

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trauma 76% connected

Serious emotional harm caused by a distressing event.

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Wound 76% connected

of Wind

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Manner of action 4

Nettle 76% connected

A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the…

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Prick 76% connected

That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.

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Prickle 76% connected

A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.

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Urticate 76% connected

To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.

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Burn 74% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Burn 74% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Cut 74% connected

of Cut

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Cut 74% connected

of Cut

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Stinger 74% connected

One who, or that which, stings.

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Stinger 74% connected

One who, or that which, stings.

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Synonym 11

Bite 92% connected

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bunko 92% connected

A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Burn 92% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Con 92% connected

Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.

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Flimflam 92% connected

A freak; a trick; a lie.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hustle 92% connected

To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pang 92% connected

A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prick 92% connected

That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stick 92% connected

A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stinging 92% connected

of Sting

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Twinge 92% connected

To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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