Exacerbation: alternatives and connections

Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to th…

The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensifie…

An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, ac…

Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in…

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

The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermel…

Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity.

Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.

Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.

Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed.

The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.

Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth; consuming violence of temper.

To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.

To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.

Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.

A motion of the body or limbs expressive of sentiment or passion; any action or posture intended to express an idea or a passion, or t…