smarting
Meaning of smarting
verb
- To hurt or sting.
After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts!"
- To cause a smart or sting in.
- To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.
noun
A sensation that smarts or stings.
adjective- Painful, sore.
My arm is still smarting from where the ball hit it.
- Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.
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Hyphenation of smarting
smart-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- smarting is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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