smartle
Verb
To hurt or sting with pain, often continually or repeatedly.
Usage- Intransitive
- Examples
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There was a little blister on Billy's knee. He looked at it with deep self-pity. "It smartles!" he said pitifully.
Smartling in its nudity, will not save the production.
More examples (1)
"I am wounded, too," he added, as he now felt for the first time, the smartling pain of the gash in his side.
Word forms
smartlessmartlingsmartledsmartled