Verb:

कड़ी पीड़ा अनुभव करना, कड़ी पीड़ा देना,

Adjective:

कठोर, कड़ा, बना-ठना, तीव्रबुद्धि, हाज़िरजवाब, फुरतीला, चतुर,

smarted's Usage Examples:

His cool reproach smarted, but the previous terse answers about his mother should have warned her that it was a touchy subject.

Omar II., however, extended to non-Arabic Moslems immunity from all taxes except the zakat (poor-rate), with the result that a large number of Persians, who still smarted under their defeat, under Mokhtar, embraced Islam and drifted into the towns to form a nucleus of sedition under the Shiite preachers.

Even when Rome and Italy smarted beneath his proscriptions and extortions, the provinces were undisturbed.

Synonyms:

astute, canny, with-it, street smart, clever, intelligent, streetwise, sharp, cagy, cagey, shrewd,

Antonyms:

pleasure, good health, failure, unintelligent, stupid,