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Smarting

of Smart

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Hurting 76% connected

of Hurt

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hurt 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Hurt 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 2

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.

Smartness 92% connected

The quality or state of being smart.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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