smartle
smartle verb: to hurt or sting with pain, often continually or repeatedly.
Verb
smartle (third-person singular simple present smartles, present participle smartling, simple past and past participle smartled)
- To hurt or sting with pain, often continually or repeatedly.
- There was a little blister on Billy's knee. He looked at it with deep self-pity. "It smartles!" he said pitifully.1902, Brown Linnet, The Kidnapping of Ettie and Other Tales, page 287
- Smartling in its nudity, will not save the production.1954, Paul Henry Lang, Articles, Reviews, Etc, page 13
Forms of smartle
| third-person singular present | smartles |
|---|---|
| present participle | smartling |
| past participle | smartled |
| past | smartled |
Origin of smartle
From smart + -le.
Questions about smartle
- What does smartle mean?
- Smartle means to hurt or sting with pain, often continually or repeatedly.
- What part of speech is smartle?
- Smartle is a verb.
- What is the past tense of smartle?
- The past tense of smartle is smartled.
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