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smarted |
1 definition found 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.
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