Meaning of smartle | Babel Free

Definitions

To hurt or sting with pain, often continually or repeatedly.

intransitive

Examples

“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.”

“"I am wounded, too," he added, as he now felt for the first time, the smartling pain of the gash in his side.”

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