From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Smart \Smart\, verb (used without an object) [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) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: experiencing a burning or stinging pain; "with smarting eyes from the smoke"
noun
1: a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore [syn: {smart}]
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