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Pain

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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Narrower term 38

Ache 76% connected

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

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Aching 76% connected

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Agony 76% connected

Violent contest or striving.

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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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Burning 76% connected

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Colic 76% connected

A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.

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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.

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Dysmenorrhea 76% connected

Difficult and painful menstruation.

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Excruciation 76% connected

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

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Griping 76% connected

of Gripe

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Hurt 76% connected

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

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Irritant 76% connected

Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating.

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Myalgia 76% connected

Pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism or neuralgia.

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Nephralgia 76% connected

Alt. of Nephralgy

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Neuralgia 76% connected

A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to it…

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Neuralgy 76% connected

Neuralgia.

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Nuisance 76% connected

That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.

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Pang 76% connected

A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.

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Photophobia 76% connected

A dread or intolerance of light.

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Plague 76% connected

That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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Pleuralgia 76% connected

Pain in the side or region of the ribs.

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Pleurodynia 76% connected

A painful affection of the side, simulating pleurisy, usually due to rheumatism.

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Podalgia 76% connected

pain in the foot, due to gout, rheumatism, etc.

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Rawness 76% connected

The quality or state of being raw.

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Smart 76% 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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Smarting 76% connected

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Smartness 76% connected

The quality or state of being smart.

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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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Stinging 76% connected

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Stitch 76% connected

A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

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Suffering 76% connected

of Suffer

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Tenderness 76% connected

The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).

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Thorn 76% connected

A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.

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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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Twinge 76% connected

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

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Agonize 76% connected

To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.

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Erupt 76% connected

To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.

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Excruciate 76% connected

Excruciated; tortured.

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Rack 76% connected

Same as Arrack.

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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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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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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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Feeling 76% connected

of Feel

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Hurt 76% connected

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

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Symptom 76% connected

Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease…

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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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Ail 74% 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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Ail 74% 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 74% connected

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

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Anguish 74% connected

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

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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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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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Trouble 74% connected

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

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Trouble 74% connected

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

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Ache 72% connected

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

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Hurt 72% connected

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

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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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Ail 92% 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 92% connected

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

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Annoyance 92% connected

The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.

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Bother 92% connected

To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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Botheration 92% connected

The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

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Hurt 92% connected

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

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Hurting 92% connected

of Hurt

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Infliction 92% connected

The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment.

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Nuisance 92% connected

That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.

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Trouble 92% connected

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

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Pleasance 94% connected

Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness.

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Pleasance 94% connected

Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness.

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