smarting

Meanings

• Verb

  Feeling or showing pain, discomfort, or injury, often to the skin.

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with smarting
darting , parting , harting

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Variants

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smart , smarted , smarting , smarts , smart off , smarted off , smarting off , smarts off

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Forms

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past participle: smarted, past tense: smarted, gerund: smarting

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Etymology

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Originally meant 'to sting', from Old English smearan, smortian 'to smear, anoint, rub, sting'.

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Trivia

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1. The word 'smarting' has been used in English since the 15th century.

2. The word 'smarting' is related to the word 'smart', which originally meant 'having a sharp, keen senses or intellect'.

3. The word 'smarting' is often used metaphorically to describe emotional pain or discomfort, as in the phrase 'she took his criticism to heart and was smarting from it for days'.

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Related Concepts

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1. pain: A feeling of distress, suffering, or discomfort caused by illness, injury, or emotional causes.

2. discomfort: A feeling of unease, uneasiness, or dissatisfaction.

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Culture

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In literature, 'smarting' is often used to describe the pain or discomfort felt by characters. For example, in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia is described as 'pale and wan,/Fretting her chest,/And brow-beating her distraught brain,/With self-whipt scourge,/Smarting at every tongue,/That from the window overpeered.', indicating her deep emotional pain.

How to Memorize "smarting"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a bee stinging your skin, causing a sharp pain and a red welt. Visualize the sensation of the stinger leaving a trail of venom as it moves away.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'smarting' with the sensation of a sunburn or a paper cut. These are common experiences where the word 'smarting' would be used to describe the pain or discomfort.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the acronym S.M.A.R.T.I.N.G to remember the meaning of 'smarting': Sensation, Meaning, Aching, Responsive, Temporary, Injury, Nerve, and Generates pain.

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