unsting

English

Etymology

un- + sting

Verb

unsting (third-person singular simple present unstings, present participle unstinging, simple past and past participle unstinged)

  1. (transitive) To disarm of a sting; to remove the sting of.
    • J. M. Mason
      Elegant dissertations on virtue and vice [] will not unsting calamity.
    • 1822, Samuel Stearns, A Sermon [on 2 Tim. iv. 7, 8] delivered at the funeral of the Reverend Eliab Stone, page 3:
      It unstinged the king of terrors, and filled his soul with humble confidence and joy.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unsting in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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