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Sizzling vs Smarting - What's the difference?

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Sizzling is a related term of smarting.


As verbs the difference between sizzling and smarting

is that sizzling is while smarting is .

As adjectives the difference between sizzling and smarting

is that sizzling is hot enough to make a hissing sound while smarting is painful, sore.

As nouns the difference between sizzling and smarting

is that sizzling is such a hissing sound while smarting is a sensation that smarts or stings.

sizzling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Hot enough to make a hissing sound.
  • (of food in a Chinese restaurant etc) Brought to the table in the metal dish it has been cooked in, making such a sound.
  • Exciting and intensely emotional.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Such a hissing sound.

    • smarting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Painful, sore.
    • My arm is still smarting from where the ball hit it.
  • (figuratively) Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that smarts or stings.
  • * (Thomas Halyburton)
    • Strong they are; for they trample upon our light, the penalties of laws divine and human; yea, and the smartings of our own conscience.

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