hit where lives

Main Entry:
affront [uh-fruhnt]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: insult or involve in entanglement
Synonyms: abuse, anger, annoy, confront, criticize, displease, dispraise, dump on, encounter, face, give a zinger, give the cold shoulder, hit where one lives, meet, offend, outrage, pique, provoke, put down*, slander, slight, taunt, vex
Notes: effrontery means shameless boldness or insulting presumptuousness while an affront is a deliberately offensive act or open insult
Antonyms: appease, assuage, compliment, gratify, mollify, placate, please, satisfy, soothe
Main Entry: hurt
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cause mental pain
Synonyms: abuse, afflict, aggrieve, annoy, burn, chafe, constrain, cut to the quick, discomfit, discommode, displease, distress, excruciate, faze, give no quarter, go for jugular, grieve, hit where one lives, injure, lambaste, lay a bad trip on, lean on, martyr, martyrize, prejudice, punish, put down, put out, sadden, sting*, thumb nose at, torment, torture, try, upset, vex, vitiate, work over, wound, zing
Antonyms: calm, placate, please, relieve, soothe
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
Main Entry: provoke
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make angry
Synonyms: abet, abrade, affront, aggravate, anger, annoy, bother, bug*, chafe, enrage, exasperate, exercise, foment, fret, gall*, get on one's nerves, get under one's skin, get*, grate, hit where one lives, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, insult, irk, irritate, madden, make blood boil, make waves, nag, offend, perturb, pique, put out, raise, rile, roil, ruffle, set on, set*, try one's patience, upset, vex, whip up, work into lather, work up
Notes: provoke means to stir up or arouse - or to incite to anger or resentment; evoke means to call forth or call to mind emotions, feelings, and responses
Antonyms: delight, make happy, please
Main Entry: slur
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: insult
Synonyms: blacken, blemish, blister, blot, blow off, brand, calumniate, cap, chop*, cut to the quick, cut up, defame, denigrate, detract, discredit, disgrace, dump on, give a black eye, hit where one lives, insinuate, kick in the teeth, libel, malign, miff, offend, push, put down*, reproach, roast, scorch*, skin alive, slander, slap in the face, slight, smear, snub, spatter, stain, tear down, traduce, vilify, zing
Antonyms: compliment, flatter, praise
Main Entry: strike home
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hit where it hurts
Synonyms: hit where one lives, touch a nerve ending, touch a sore spot
Related Words
Main Entry: pain
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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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
Concept Thesaurus
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
Antonyms: pleasure
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