| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | torture; strain |
| Synonyms: | afflict, agonize, crucify, distress, excruciate, force, harass, harrow, martyr, oppress, pain, persecute, pull, shake, stress, stretch, tear, torment, try, wrench, wring |
| Notes: | rack is the linear gear and pinion is the circular gear in a mechanism rack is destruction and ruin is destitution; in rack and ruin, rack is a variation of wrack and wreck |
| Antonyms: | please, pleasure, soothe |
| Main Entry: | strike |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | devastate, affect |
| Synonyms: | afflict, aggress, assail, assault, attack, beset, deal a blow, excruciate, fall upon, harrow, hit, invade, martyr, rack, set upon, smite, storm, torment, torture, try, wring |
| Notes: | to put up a tent is to pitch it; to take down a tent is to strike it |
| Antonyms: | not touch, pass up |
| Main Entry: | till |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cultivate land |
| Synonyms: | dig, dress, farm, grow, harrow, hoe, labor, mulch, plant, plough, plow, prepare, raise crops, sow, tend, turn, turn over, work |
| Antonyms: | plant, sow |
| Main Entry: | torment |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be or make very upset |
| Synonyms: | abuse, afflict, agonize, annoy, bait, bedevil, bone, bother, break, crucify, devil, distress, drive bananas, drive up the wall, excruciate, give a hard time, harass, harrow, harry, heckle, hound, hurt, irritate, mistreat, molest, nag, pain, persecute, pester, plague, play cat and mouse, provoke, punish, put through wringer, rack, rub salt in wound, smite, tease, torture, trouble, try, vex, worry, wring |
| Notes: | torment suggests persecution or the repeated inflicting of suffering or annoyance; torture adds the implication of causing unbearable pain or suffering |
| Antonyms: | delight, make happy, please |
| Main Entry: | torture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | upset or hurt severely |
| Synonyms: | abuse, afflict, agonize, annoy, beat, bother, crucify, distress, disturb, excruciate, grill, harrow, impale, injure, irritate, lacerate, maim, mangle, martyr, martyrize, mistreat, mutilate, oppress, pain, persecute, rack, smite, torment, try, whip, wound, wring, wrong |
| Notes: | torment suggests persecution or the repeated inflicting of suffering or annoyance; torture adds the implication of causing unbearable pain or suffering |
| Antonyms: | alleviate, make happy, please, relieve |
| Main Entry: | pain |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
Related
Adjectives: |
a prey to, a prey to grief, abhorrent, accursed, aching, acute, affecting, afflicted, afflicting, afflictive, aggravating, agonizing, algedonic, amyctic, annoying, anxious, aponic, appalling, awkward, between hawk and buzzard, biting, bitter, bothering, broken, calamitous, careworn, carking, causing pain, caustic, chagrined, cheerless, comfortless, concerned, consuming, corroding, cruel, crushed, crushing, cumbersome, cumbrous, cut up, cutting, deplorable, depressing, depressive, desolating, devoted, dire, disagreeable, disastrous, discontented, disgusting, disheartening, dismal, displeased, displeasing, distasteful, distressing, disturbed, dolorific, dolorous, doomed, dreadful, dreary, enough to drive one mad, enough to make a person swear, enough to provoke a saint, envenomed, excruciating, execrable, fashed, fearful, frightful, full of pain, fulsome, galling, grating, grave, grievous, grim, grinding, griped, hagridden, harassing, hard, harrowing, harsh, hateful, heart, heart, heart, heart, heavy, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrified, horrifying, horror, hurting, ill, ill at ease, in a state of pain, in a taking, in a way, in despair, in grief, in limbo, in pain, in tears, infelicitous, insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, invidious, irksome, irritating, joyless, kedogenous, lamentable, loathful, loathsome, lost, melancholy, melpomenish, miserable, more than flesh and blood can bear, mortifying, mournful, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, not to be borne, not to be endured, obnoxious, odious, offensive, on the rack, onerous, oppressive, out of humor, pained, painful, past bearing, pathetic, pestering, piteous, pitiable, plaguing, plaguy, plunged in grief, poor, provoking, racking, rending, repellent, repulsive, revolting, rueful, ruinous, sad, searching, severe, sharp, shocking, sickening, sore, sorrowful, sorrowing, sorry, steeped to the lips in misery, stinging, stranded, stricken, suffering, teasing, terrific, thankless, thrilling, tiresome, to be pitied, tormenting, torminous, torturous, touching, tragical, tremendous, troublesome, unacceptable, unaccommodating, unbearable, uncomfortable, undesirable, undesired, undone, uneasy, unendurable, unfortunate, unhappy, uninviting, unlucky, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpleasing, unpopular, unsatisfactory, untoward, unwelcome, vexatious, victimized, vile, vulnerative, wearisome, weary, withering, wobegone, woeful, worried, worrying, wretched
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| Concept: | Pain. |
| Category: | 1. Passive Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
mental suffering, pain, dolor; suffering, sufferance; ache, smart (physical pain); passion., displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet; malaise; inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit; taking; discontent., dejection; weariness; anhedonia., annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation; plague, bore; bother, botheration; stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre; mauvais quart d'heur., care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal, shock, blow, cark, dole, fret, burden, load., concern, grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, heartache; carking cares; heavy heart, aching heart, bleeding heart, broken heart; heavy affliction, gnawing grief., unhappiness, infelicity, misery, tribulation, wretchedness, desolation; despair; extremity, prostration, depth of misery., nightmare, ephialtes, incubus., pang, anguish, agony; torture, torment; purgatory (hell)., hell upon earth; iron age, reign of terror; slough of depond (adversity); peck of troubles; "ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet] (evil) [more]; miseries of human life; "unkindest cut of all" [Julius Caesar]., sufferer, victim, prey, martyr, object of compassion, wretch, shorn lamb.
-verbs
feel pain, suffer pain, experience pain, unergo pain, bear pain, endure pain, smart, ache (physical pain) [more]; suffer, bleed, ail; be the victim of., labor under afflictions; bear the cross; quaff the bitter cup, have a bad time of it; fall on evil days (adversity); go hard with, come to grief, fall a sacrifice to, drain the cup of misery to the dregs, "sup full of horrors" [Macbeth]., sit on thorns, be on pins and needles, wince, fret, chafe, worry oneself, be in a taking, fret and fume; take on, take to heart; cark., grieve; mourn (lament); yearn, repine, pine, droop, languish, sink; give way; despair; break one's heart; weigh upon the heart (inflict pain).
-adjectives
in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain; suffering; pained, afflicted, worried, displeased; aching, griped, sore (physical pain) [more]; on the rack, in limbo; between hawk and buzzard., uncomfortable, uneasy; ill at ease; in a taking, in a way; disturbed; discontented; out of humor; weary., heavy laden, stricken, crushed, a prey to, victimized, ill-used.
-phrases
"the iron entered into our soul"; haeret lateri lethalis arundo [Vergil]; one's heart bleeding; "down, thou climbing sorrow" [Lear]; "mirth cannot move a soul in agony" [Love's Labor's Lost]; nessun maggior dolere che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria; "sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering
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| Antonyms: | pleasure |
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