Smarting vs Pang - What's the difference?
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Painful, sore.
(figuratively) Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.
A sensation that smarts or stings.
* (Thomas Halyburton)
(often, pluralized) paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; sudden and transitory agony; throe
* 1591 , , Henry VI, Part II , act 3, sc. 3,
* 1888 , , "The Nightingale and the Rose" in The Happy Prince and Other Tales ,
(often, pluralized) A sharp, sudden feeling of a mental or emotional nature, as of joy or sorrow
* 1867 , , The Guardian Angel , ch. 7,
to torment; to torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering
* 1918 , , "On Unanswering Letters" in Mince Pie ,
Smarting is a related term of pang.
As an adjective smarting
is painful, sore.As a verb smarting
is .As a noun smarting
is a sensation that smarts or stings.smarting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- My arm is still smarting from where the ball hit it.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Strong they are; for they trample upon our light, the penalties of laws divine and human; yea, and the smartings of our own conscience.
Anagrams
*pang
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- See, how the pangs of death do make him grin!
- So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her.
- He was startled with a piece of information which gave him such an exquisite pang of delight that he could hardly keep the usual quiet of his demeanor.
Verb
- It panged him so to say good-bye when he had to leave.