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Ache

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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Verb group 20

Abide 84% connected

To wait; to pause; to delay.

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Abide 84% connected

To wait; to pause; to delay.

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Bear 84% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Bear 84% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Brook 84% connected

A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

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Brook 84% connected

A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

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Digest 84% connected

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

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Digest 84% connected

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

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Endure 84% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

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Endure 84% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

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Stand 84% connected

To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

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Stand 84% connected

To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

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Stomach 84% connected

An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion tak…

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Stomach 84% connected

An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion tak…

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Suffer 84% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Suffer 84% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Support 84% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Support 84% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Tolerate 84% connected

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with;…

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Tolerate 84% connected

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with;…

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Manner of action 29

Agonize 76% connected

To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.

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Ail 76% connected

To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, who…

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Anguish 76% connected

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

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Bite 76% connected

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…

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Burn 76% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Choke 76% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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Die 76% connected

of Dice

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Famish 76% connected

To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

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Freeze 76% connected

A frieze.

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Gag 76% connected

To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of spe…

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Grieve 76% connected

Alt. of Greeve

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Hunger 76% connected

An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

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Itch 76% connected

To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

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Kill 76% connected

A kiln.

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Lose 76% connected

To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…

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Prick 76% connected

That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.

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Shoot 76% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Sorrow 76% connected

The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief a…

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Starve 76% connected

To die; to perish.

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Sting 76% connected

Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…

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Strangle 76% connected

To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…

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Suffocate 76% connected

Suffocated; choked.

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Swelter 76% connected

To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.

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Thirst 76% connected

A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excite…

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Throb 76% connected

To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc.

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Twinge 76% connected

To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

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Narrower term 8

Bellyache 76% connected

Pain in the bowels; colic.

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Cephalalgia 76% connected

Alt. of Cephalalgy

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Earache 76% connected

Ache or pain in the ear.

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Gastralgia 76% connected

Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.

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Headache 76% connected

Pain in the head; cephalalgia.

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Odontalgia 76% connected

Toothache.

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Otalgia 76% connected

Pain in the ear; earache.

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Toothache 76% connected

Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.

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Broader term 7

Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Feel 76% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Hanker 76% connected

To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker afte…

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Hurting 76% connected

of Hurt

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Long 76% connected

Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.

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Pain 76% connected

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

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Yearn 76% connected

To pain; to grieve; to vex.

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Derivationally related 12

Aching 74% connected

of Ache

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Aching 74% connected

of Ache

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Excruciation 74% connected

The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.

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Excruciation 74% connected

The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.

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Hurt 74% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Hurt 74% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Suffer 74% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Suffer 74% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Sufferance 74% connected

The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance.

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Sufferance 74% connected

The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance.

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Sufferer 74% connected

One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are suffer…

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Sufferer 74% connected

One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are suffer…

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Synonym 8

Aching 92% connected

of Ache

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Hurt 92% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Languish 92% connected

To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade.

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Pine 92% connected

Woe; torment; pain.

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Smart 92% connected

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.

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Suffer 92% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Yearn 92% connected

To pain; to grieve; to vex.

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Yen 92% connected

of Ye

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