sting
verb (used with object)
to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
outsting
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a word derived from
sting.
Example Sentences
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How mongrel Persius managed to outsting That pungent proscript, foul Rupilius King, Is known, I take it, to each wight that drops Oil on bleared eyes, or lolls in barbers' shops.
From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by John Conington
