STUNG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stung mean? 

• STUNG (adjective)
  The adjective STUNG has 1 sense:

1. aroused to impatience or anger

  Familiarity information: STUNG used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUNG (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Aroused to impatience or anger

Synonyms:

annoyed; irritated; miffed; nettled; peeved; pissed; pissed off; riled; roiled; steamed; stung

Context example:

roiled by the delay

Similar:

displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)

 Context examples 

Holmes sprang in his chair as if he had been stung when I read the headlines.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The club dropped from her hand as though it had suddenly stung her, and at the same moment my heart surged with a great joy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Uriah fell back, as if he had been struck or stung.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Someone chokes on an ice cube or gets stung by a bee.

(First Aid, NIH)

Stooping over in quest of minnows, he jerked his head back as though he had been stung.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was stung by his words into realization of the puerility of her act, and yet she felt that he had magnified it unduly and was consequently resentful.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Sometimes they would fix upon my nose, or forehead, where they stung me to the quick, smelling very offensively; and I could easily trace that viscous matter, which, our naturalists tell us, enables those creatures to walk with their feet upwards upon a ceiling.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His thin lips, like the dies of a machine, stamped out phrases that cut and stung; or again, pursing caressingly about the inchoate sound they articulated, the thin lips shaped soft and velvety things, mellow phrases of glow and glory, of haunting beauty, reverberant of the mystery and inscrutableness of life; and yet again the thin lips were like a bugle, from which rang the crash and tumult of cosmic strife, phrases that sounded clear as silver, that were luminous as starry spaces, that epitomized the final word of science and yet said something more—the poet's word, the transcendental truth, elusive and without words which could express, and which none the less found expression in the subtle and all but ungraspable connotations of common words.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)