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Stinging vs Corroding - What's the difference?

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Stinging is a related term of corroding.


As verbs the difference between stinging and corroding

is that stinging is while corroding is .

As nouns the difference between stinging and corroding

is that stinging is the act by which someone receives a sting while corroding is corrosion.

As an adjective stinging

is having the capacity to sting.

stinging

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the capacity to sting.
    • stinging nettles

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone receives a sting.
    • the stingings of scorpions
    stingings of remorse

    corroding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • corrosion
  • * 1823 , Timothy Dwight, Travels in New-England and New-York (page 269)
    • My companions ate merely to satisfy the corrodings of hunger. I fasted till after three the succeeding morning.