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am smarting

  • present progressive
    of smart (1st person singular).
    smart
    verb (used without object)
    to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.

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I am smarting, let us suppose, from a slight administered by my friend; my wounded self-assertion demands satisfaction.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth

And yet this last strike, under which I am smarting, has been respectable.'

From North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell