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===verb transitive===

[[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[κεντεῖν]], [[verse|V.]] [[χρίειν]]. [[Plato]], [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[δάκνειν]]; [[vex]], [[anger]].

[[things that sting the heart]]: [[verse|V.]] [[καρδίας δηκτήρια]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Hecuba]]'' 235).

===substantive===

Lit., [[that which stings]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[κέντρον]], τό, [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] [[ἐγκεντρίς]], ἡ.

[[wound produced by sting]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[δῆγμα]], [[verse|V.]] [[θάλπος]], τό, [[χάραγμα]], τό (of a [[serpent's sting]]).

Met., [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[οἶστρος]], ὁ ([[Plato]]), [[κέντρον]], τό.

[[bitterness]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[πικρότης]], ἡ.

[[furnished with a sting]]: [[prose|P.]] [[κεκεντρωμένος]] ([[Plato]]).

[[without a sting]] (of [[drone]]s): [[prose|P.]] [[ἄκεντρος]] ([[Plato]]).
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