Smart v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smarted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smarting.]
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.
2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil; as, the team is still smarting from its loss of the championship.
No creature smarts so little as a fool. --Pope.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. --Prov. xi. 15.
smarting
adj : experiencing a burning or stinging pain; "with smarting eyes
from the smoke"
n : a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a
sore [syn: smart]