From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Smart \Smart\ (sm[aum]rt), v. i. [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[aum]rta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, OHG.
smerzo, and probably to L. mordere to bite; cf. Gr.
smerdno`s, smerdale`os, terrible, fearful, Skr. m[.r]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.
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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.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool. --Pope.
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He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
--Prov. xi.
15.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
smarting
n 1: a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or
a sore [syn: {smart}, {smarting}, {smartness}]
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