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Hurt

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

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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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Similar meaning 2

Injured 84% connected

of Injure

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Injured 84% connected

of Injure

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Manner of action 45

Abase 76% connected

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.

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Affront 76% connected

To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

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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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Chagrin 76% connected

Vexation; mortification.

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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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Excruciate 76% connected

Excruciated; tortured.

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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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Humble 76% connected

Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

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Humiliate 76% connected

To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify.

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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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Injure 76% connected

To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…

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Insult 76% connected

The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

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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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Lacerate 76% connected

To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.

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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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Mortify 76% connected

To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

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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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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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Rack 76% connected

Same as Arrack.

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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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Torment 76% connected

An engine for casting stones.

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Torture 76% connected

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

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Trouble 76% connected

To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

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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…

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Twinge 76% connected

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

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Wound 76% connected

of Wind

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Agony 76% connected

Violent contest or striving.

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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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Bleeding 76% connected

of Bleed

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Bruise 76% connected

To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…

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Bump 76% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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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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Contusion 76% connected

The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.

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Defacement 76% connected

The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

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Defloration 76% connected

The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin.

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Discomfort 76% connected

To discourage; to deject.

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Disfiguration 76% connected

The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement.

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Disfigurement 76% connected

Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity.

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Dislocation 76% connected

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.

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Expense 76% connected

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

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Fracture 76% connected

The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

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Frostbite 76% connected

The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose.

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Hemorrhage 76% connected

Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

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Impairment 76% connected

The state of being impaired; injury.

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Irritation 76% connected

The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially,…

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Lesion 76% connected

A hurt; an injury.

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Mutilation 76% connected

The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.

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Pinch 76% connected

To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as be…

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Rupture 76% connected

The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the ruptu…

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Self-torture 76% connected

The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.

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Soreness 76% connected

The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.

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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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Strain 76% connected

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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Torment 76% connected

An engine for casting stones.

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Torture 76% connected

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

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Twist 76% connected

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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Wale 76% connected

A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.

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Weal 76% connected

The mark of a stripe. See Wale.

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Welt 76% connected

That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it

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Wheal 76% connected

A pustule; a whelk.

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Whiplash 76% connected

The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.

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Wound 76% connected

of Wind

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Wounding 76% connected

of Wound

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Wrench 76% connected

Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.

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Arouse 76% connected

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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Damage 76% connected

Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

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Discomfit 76% connected

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

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Discompose 76% connected

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

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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.

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Elicit 76% connected

Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

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Enkindle 76% connected

To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.

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Evoke 76% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

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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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Fire 76% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Harm 76% connected

Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

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Impairment 76% connected

The state of being impaired; injury.

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Indispose 76% connected

To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.

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Kindle 76% connected

To bring forth young.

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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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Provoke 76% connected

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Untune 76% connected

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

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Upset 76% connected

To set up; to put upright.

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Ache 74% connected

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

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Ache 74% connected

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

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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.

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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.

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Smart 74% 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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Smart 74% 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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Causes 3

Ache 72% connected

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

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Smart 72% 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.

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.

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Open English WordNet records a causal relationship between these meanings.

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Ache 92% connected

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

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.

Anguish 92% connected

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

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.

Bruise 92% connected

To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…

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.

Damage 92% connected

Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

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.

Detriment 92% connected

That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals…

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.

Distress 92% 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 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.

Harm 92% connected

Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

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.

Injure 92% connected

To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…

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.

Injury 92% connected

Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong,…

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.

Offend 92% connected

To strike against; to attack; to assail.

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.

Scathe 92% connected

Alt. of Scath

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.

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.

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.

Spite 92% connected

Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.

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.

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.

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.

Suffering 92% connected

of Suffer

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.

trauma 92% connected

Serious emotional harm caused by a distressing event.

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.

Weakened 92% connected

of Weaken

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.

Wound 92% connected

of Wind

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.

Wounded 92% connected

of Wound

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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