ALL meanings of outsting
sting
O o - verb with object outsting to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ. 1
- verb with object outsting to affect painfully or irritatingly as a result of contact, as certain plants do: to be stung by nettles. 1
- verb with object outsting to cause to smart or to cause a sharp pain: The blowing sand stung his eyes. 1
- verb with object outsting to cause mental or moral anguish: to be stung with remorse. 1
- verb with object outsting to goad or drive, as by sharp irritation. 1
- verb with object outsting Slang. to cheat or take advantage of, especially to overcharge; soak. 1
- verb without object outsting to use, have, or wound with a sting, as bees. 1
- verb without object outsting to cause a sharp, smarting pain, as some plants, an acrid liquid or gas, or a slap or hit. 1
- verb without object outsting to cause acute mental pain or irritation, as annoying thoughts or one's conscience: The memory of that insult still stings. 1
- verb without object outsting to feel acute mental pain or irritation: He was stinging from the blow to his pride. 1
- verb without object outsting to feel a smarting pain, as from a blow or the sting of an insect. 1
- noun outsting an act or an instance of stinging. 1
- noun outsting a wound, pain, or smart caused by stinging. 1
- noun outsting any sharp physical or mental wound, hurt, or pain. 1
- noun outsting anything or an element in anything that wounds, pains, or irritates: to feel the sting of defeat; Death, where is thy sting? 1
- noun outsting capacity to wound or pain: Satire has a sting. 1
- noun outsting a sharp stimulus or incitement: driven by the sting of jealousy; the sting of ambition. 1
- noun outsting Botany. a glandular hair on certain plants, as nettles, that emits an irritating fluid. 1
- noun outsting Zoology. any of various sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organs of insects and other animals capable of inflicting painful or dangerous wounds. 1
- noun outsting Slang. confidence game. an ostensibly illegal operation, as the buying of stolen goods or the bribing of public officials, used by undercover investigators to collect evidence of wrongdoing. 1