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  2  definitions  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. 
 
  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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