stinging

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act by which someone receives a sting.
    — the stingings of scorpions
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of sting form-of,gerund,participle,present
    — The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having the capacity to sting.
    — stinging nettles
  2. Precise and hurtful. figuratively
    — That same year, a young Gloria Steinem went undercover as a Playboy Bunny at one of his Playboy Clubs and wrote a stinging inside critique of the magazine's ethos and chauvinism in an article, titled "A Bunny's Tale," which was published in Show magazine.

词形变化

more stinging comparative most stinging superlative stingings plural

词汇关系

词源

词源 1
From Middle English styngyng; equivalent to sting + -ing.
词源 2
From Middle English styngyng; equivalent to sting + -ing.
词源 3
From Middle English styngyng; equivalent to sting + -ing.
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