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Definition of Stung

1. Adjective. Aroused to impatience or anger. "Roiled by the delay"

Definition of Stung

1. Verb. (past of sting) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stung

1. sting [v] - See also: sting

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stung

Literary usage of Stung

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1822)
"I am wounded through— " Some serpent on a tiny wing— " stung by some little angry thing, " A bee it was—tor once I know " I heard a rustic call it so. ..."

2. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1822)
"The bee awak'd and stung the child. The bee awak'd—with anger ... Thou feel the" little wild-bee's touch, * stung hy some little angry thing, " Seme serpent ..."

3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"He spoke, whose speech stung Hector to the quick ; Lightly he leapt in armour to the earth, And, with two javelins brandish'd, through the line Moved, ..."

4. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"stung her on the tonsil. Great pain and inflammation followed, and in a short time there was complete deprivation of the power of speech. ..."

5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1850)
"Mas- sera,' said he, ' they would have stung ... which he did and was not stung : I then ventured to follow, and I declare upon my honour, that even after ..."

6. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1920)
"I was stung with pain, and recalled her. " I don't possess a farthing; but I will remember you later on, maybe tomorrow. What is your name ? ..."

7. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1850)
"Mas- sera,' said he, ' they would have stung you long ere now, had you been a stranger to them; but they being your tenants, that is, gradually allowed to ..."

8. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"Mas- sera,' said he, ' they would have stung you long era now, had you been a stranger to them ; but they being your tenants, that is, gradually allowed to ..."

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