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Anguish

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

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Broader term 10

Ache 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Discomfit 76% connected

To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Discompose 76% connected

To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Disconcert 76% connected

To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Distress 76% connected

Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hurt 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Suffer 76% 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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Suffering 76% connected

of Suffer

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Untune 76% connected

To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Upset 76% connected

To set up; to put upright.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 6

Agonize 76% connected

To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Excruciate 76% connected

Excruciated; tortured.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rack 76% connected

Same as Arrack.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Torment 76% connected

An engine for casting stones.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Torture 76% connected

Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Try 76% connected

To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 4

Pain 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Pain 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Causes 3

Ache 72% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a causal relationship between these meanings.

Hurt 72% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a causal relationship between these meanings.

Suffer 72% 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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a causal relationship between these meanings.

Synonym 4

Hurt 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Pain 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Torment 92% connected

An engine for casting stones.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Torture 92% connected

Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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