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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suffer or cause another to suffer |
| Synonyms: | afflict, bleed, carry on, crucify, distress, disturb, eat heart out, excruciate, harrow, hurt, labor, lament, martyr, pain, rack, sing the blues, squirm, stew over, strain, strive, struggle, take it badly, torment, torture, try, wince, worry, writhe |
| Antonyms: | not worry |
| Main Entry: | bleed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grieve |
| Synonyms: | ache, agonize, be in pain, feel for, pity, suffer, sympathize |
| Main Entry: | crucify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | browbeat, destroy with words |
| Synonyms: | afflict, agonize, bedevil, bother, harrow, ill-treat, lampoon, pan, ridicule, smite, tear to pieces, torment, torture, try, wipe the floor with |
| Antonyms: | compliment, exalt, laud, praise |
| Main Entry: | distress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | worry, upset |
| Synonyms: | afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, be on one's case, bother, break, bug, burn up, depress, desolate, discombobulate, disquiet, disturb, do a number on, dog*, eat*, get to, get*, give a hard time, grieve, harass, harry, hound, hurt, injure, irk, irritate, make it tough for, miff, nag, needle, nit-pick, oppress, pain, peeve, perplex, pester, pick on, plague, push, push buttons, rack, sadden, strain, strap, stress, tick off, torment, torture, trouble, try, vex, weigh, wound |
| Antonyms: | assist, calm, comfort, help, soothe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fret |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | worry, be annoyed |
| Synonyms: | affront, agonize, anguish, bleed, bother, brood, carp, carry a heavy load, chafe, chagrin, distress oneself, eat one's heart out, fume, fuss, get into a dither, grieve, lose sleep over, mope, pother, stew, sweat it out, take on, torment, upset oneself |
| Antonyms: | calm, comfort, soothe |
| Main Entry: | grieve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | upset, distress someone |
| Synonyms: | afflict, aggrieve, agonize, break the heart of, constrain, crush, hurt, injure, pain, sadden, wound |
| Antonyms: | delight, please, satisfy |
| Main Entry: | haunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | visit as a spirit |
| Synonyms: | agitate, agonize, annoy, appall, appear, be ever present, bedevil, beset, besiege, come back, disquiet, dwell, float, frighten, harass, harrow, hound, hover, infest, inhabit, intrude, madden, manifest, materialize, molest, nettle, obsess, overrun, permeate, pervade, pester, plague, possess, prey on, rack, reappear, recur, return, rise, spook, stay with, tease, terrify, terrorize, torment, trouble, vex, voodoo, walk, weigh on, worry |
| Main Entry: | mourn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be sad over loss |
| Synonyms: | ache, agonize, anguish, be brokenhearted, be sad, bemoan, bewail, bleed, blubber, carry on, complain, cry, deplore, fret, grieve, hurt, keen, lament, languish, long for, miss, moan, pine, regret, repine, rue, sigh, sob, sorrow, suffer, take it hard, wail, wear black, weep, wring hands, yearn |
| Antonyms: | be happy, be joyful |
| Main Entry: | pain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, trouble |
| Synonyms: | ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, annoy, bite, chafe, chasten, constrain, convulse, cut to the quick, discomfort, disquiet, distress, exasperate, excruciate, gall, grieve, gripe, harass, harm, harrow, hit where one lives, hurt, inflame, injure, irk, irritate, nick, prick, punish, rack, rile, sadden, smart, sting, strain, stress, suffer, throb, tingle, torment, torture, upset, vex, worry, wound |
| Notes: | a pain is something that hurts; an ache is a prolonged dull pain a pain is something that hurts as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder; a pane is a sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, assuage, help, please |
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