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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Smart \Smart\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Smarted}; p. pr & vb n.
{Smarting}.] [OE. smarten, AS smeortan akin to D. smarten,
smerten, G. schmerzen OHG. smerzan Dan. smerte, SW
sm["a]rta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz Ohg. smerzo
and probably to L. mordere to bite; cf Gr ????, ?????,
terrible, fearful, Skr. m?d to rub, crush. Cf {Morsel}.]
1. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part
of the body as the seat of irritation; as my finger
smarts; these wounds smart. --Chaucer. --Shak.
2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or
grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
No creature smarts so little as a fool. --Pope.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it
--Prov. xi
15.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
smarting
adj : experiencing a burning or stinging pain; "with smarting eyes
from the smoke"
n : a stinging pain [syn: {smart}]
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