Read full poem →Then he gave the fool a cut with his whip
And leaving him smarting, he rode away.
Dictionary Entry
To hurt or sting.
In a Sentence
“After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts!"”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “smarting”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Smarting with the insult,
Through the streets of Drontheim
Read full poem →The barley horn his garments interweaves;
Smarting and sweating ’neath the sultry day,
With muttering curses stung, he mauls the heaps away.
Read full poem →Speak of the sure consolations of time!
Fresh be the wound, still-renewed be its smarting,
So but thy image endure in its prime!