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verb
- To cause distress or pain to (a person or their heart, soul, etc.); to distress, to torment.
- To experience distress, pain, punishment, etc.
- To use effort to draw (a response, words, etc.) from or out of someone; to generate (something) as a response.
- (also figuratively) Often followed by from or out: to extract (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing, twisting, or otherwise putting pressure on it.
- Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out.
- To clasp and twist (hands) together due to distress, sorrow, etc.
- To twist or wind (something) into coils; to coil.
- (mining) Of a lode: to be depleted of ore; to peter or peter out.
- To twist the body in or as if in pain; to writhe.
- To obtain (something) from or out of a person or thing by extortion or other force.
- (materials science) To slide (two ultraflat surfaces) together such that their faces bond.
- To be engaged in clasping and twisting (especially the hands), or exerting pressure.
- To contend, to struggle; also, to strive, to toil.
- (also figuratively) To hold (someone or something) tightly and press or twist; to wrest.
- To squeeze water (from an item of wet clothing) by passing through a wringer.
- To bend or strain (something) out of its position; to wrench, to wrest.
- Of a thing (such as footwear): to pinch or press (a person or part of their body), causing pain.
- To contort or screw up (the face or its features).
- To cause (tears) to come out from a person or their eyes.
- twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish
- twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid
- twist and press out of shape
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
noun
verb
- To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
- To drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.
- (Scotland, agriculture) Of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).
- To punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.
- To strike (a person, an animal, etc.) with a scourge (noun etymology 1 sense 1) or whip; to flog, to whip.
- whip
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- punish severely; excoriate
noun
- something causing misery or death
- (weaponry, chiefly historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
- A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
- A person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.
- a whip used to inflict punishment
- a person who inspires fear or dread
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- Suffering, torment.
- (Christianity) Christ's ravaging or hostile incursion of Hell, conducted between his crucifixion and resurrection, in which he liberated the souls of the righteous held captive by Satan.
- The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
- Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.
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- (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
- (uncountable, colloquial) A counter or bartop.
- (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- (archaic except Caribbean, Guyana, South Africa, Australia) A pineapple.
- (sports, uncountable, colloquial) The bench, where players sit when not playing.
- straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus
- a coniferous tree
verb
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- torment emotionally or mentally
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- go at a rack
- work on a rack
- fly in high wind
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- torture on the rack
- run before a gale
- draw off from the lees
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- stretch to the limits
noun
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A fast amble.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- A distaff.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- Alternative form of arak.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
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- a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
- extreme mental distress
- the act of harassing someone
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- unbearable physical pain
- a severe affliction
- Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
- Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
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- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- extreme mental distress
- the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- unbearable physical pain
- The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
- (in figurative or extended use) An unpleasant sensation or its infliction: embarrassment, heartache, etc.
- (BDSM, in combination) Sexual activity involving the infliction of pain to a certain body part or in a certain manner.
- Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body.
noun
- A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution.
- A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
- (figuratively) Any harsh treatment or experience; rough handling.
- The act (action) or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a parent or teacher), especially when disappointed or dissatisfied with the behavior or actions of a child, student, or someone else being looked after.
- the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty
noun
- Something cruel or evil; also, something which causes distress or suffering.
- (often humorous) A dish which is devilled (“made piquant or spicy”); a devil; also, the elements of the dish which make it spicy, or the piquancy or spiciness of the dish.
- A devilish, mischievous, or reckless nature; mischievousness.
- Something cleverly constructed.
- (uncountable) Devilish action or conduct; wickedness; (more generally) troublemaking behaviour; mischief; (countable) an instance of this.
- reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
adj
- causing misery or pain or distress
- Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
- causing physical or psychological pain
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
- causing physical discomfort
- (informal) Very bad, poor.
- Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
- Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
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- One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.
- someone who torments
- (figuratively) Something abstract that causes suffering.
- An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
- (theater) One of a pair of narrow curtains just behind the front curtain and teaser that mask the areas on the sides of the stage and can be adjusted to the desired width.
- a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
noun
- Extreme suffering, affliction; torment; torture, especially without reason.
- The condition of a martyr; the death or suffering of a martyr; the death or suffering on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause.
- death that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause
- any experience that causes intense suffering
verb
- (figurative) To cause harm or pain to.
- (ambitransitive) To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
- (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain (physically or emotionally).
- (transitive, of an insect or arachnid) To puncture with the stinger.
- cause a stinging pain
- cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- deliver a sting to
noun
- The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
- A sharp, localized pain primarily on the epidermis.
- A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
- The concluding point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
- A brief sequence of music used in films, TV, and video games as a form of scenic punctuation or to identify the broadcasting station.
- A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
- (botany) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
- A goad; incitement.
- A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
- (law enforcement) A police operation in which the police pretend to engage in criminal activity in order to catch a criminal.
- A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
- A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.
- (figurative) The harmful or painful part of something.
- operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
- a mental pain or distress
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
verb
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- hurt the feelings of
- be in pain
- cause damage or affect negatively
- give trouble or pain to
- be the source of pain
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- (transitive, intransitive) To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
- (intransitive, stative) To be painful.
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- feelings of mental or physical pain
- the act of damaging something or someone
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- a damage or loss
- psychological suffering
- An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
- (engineering) A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
- A husk.
- (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
verb
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
- (intransitive, India) To feel pain; to hurt.
- (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
noun
- something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
- a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
- a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
- emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
- (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
- (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
- (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
- (now usually in the plural) The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
- (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
noun
- Suffering, woe, torment.
- A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
- Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
- A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
- A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
- A block of compressed cannabis.
- A bundle of compressed fibers (especially hay, straw, cotton, or wool), compacted for shipping and handling and bound by twine or wire.
- (collective) A group of turtles.
- a large bundle bound for storage or transport
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- Of behaviour which gives pleasure in the pain or humiliation of others.
- Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.
- (colloquial) Causing a high degree of pain or humiliation.
- (slang, colloquial, semantic bleaching) The behavior of one who enjoys teasing others.
- deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another
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- To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
- (intransitive) To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
- To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
- (transitive) To place a curse upon (a person or object).
- (transitive) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
- exclude from a church or a religious community
- utter obscenities or profanities
- heap obscenities upon
- wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
noun
- something causing misery or death
- The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
- A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
- A vulgar epithet.
- A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
- an evil spell
- an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- a severe affliction
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- Causing great sadness or suffering.
- (informal, chiefly predicative) Cringeworthy; tryhard; unhip; embarrassing; hopeless; indicative of (or having) a chronic lack of self-awareness.
- Relating to tragedy in a literary work.
- (in tabloid newspapers) Having been the victim of a tragedy.
- of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy
- very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction
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- To disturb (someone, their mind, etc.) mentally; to bother, trouble, upset.
- (sciences) To influence (a process or system) so that it deviates from its normal state.
- (intransitive) To bother, to disturb, to trouble.
- (mathematics) To slightly modify (a set of equations or their solutions), producing deviations from a simple, easily solvable problem, in order to find an approximate solution to a problem that is more difficult to solve or otherwise unsolvable.
- To cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed; to cause confusion.
- (astronomy) Of a celestial body: to modify the motion or orbit of (another celestial body) by exerting a gravitational force; hence (physics), to slightly modify (the motion of an object).
- cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- throw into great confusion or disorder
- disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom
noun
- something causing misery or death
- (chiefly Scotland) Alternative spelling of bone.
- (uncountable, UK, dialectal, veterinary medicine) A disease of sheep in which breakdown of tissue occurs; rot.
- (countable) A cause of misery or ruin.
- (uncountable, chiefly poetic) Misery, woe; also, doom, ruin; or physical injury, harm.
verb
noun
- something causing misery or death
- Polar opposite, especially of a literary character.
- The principle of retributive justice.
- The personification of the "fatal flaw" of a dramatic hero in the style of Greek tragedy.
- (usually in the singular, formal) A punishment or defeat that is deserved and cannot be avoided; (an instance of) retribution.
- An enemy, especially an archenemy.
- A person or character who specifically brings about the downfall of another person or character, as an agent of that character's fate or destiny, especially within a narrative.
verb
- (intransitive) To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
- suffer agony or anguish
- (intransitive) To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately, whether mentally or physically.
- (transitive) To cause agony or anguish in someone.
- (transitive, biochemistry, pharmacology) To act as an agonist upon; to combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction.
- cause to agonize
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- To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).
- To rob or mug (someone).
- (transitive) To put up to hang.
- To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
- To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).
- To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.
- (intransitive, figurative) To stop talking.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.
- interrupt a telephone conversation
- put a telephone receiver back in its cradle
- cause to be hanging or suspended
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- (transitive) To torment; to torture.
- (transitive) To persecute.
- (transitive) To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
- torture and torment like a martyr
- kill as a martyr
noun
- (by extension) One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
- (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly or constantly, even involuntarily.
- One who willingly accepts being put to death or willingly accepts challenging and exposing iniquity done to oneself for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after red martyrdom.
- (derogatory) Someone who exaggerates their pain and suffering in order to gain sympathy.
- one who suffers for the sake of principle
- one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion
verb
- inflict a trauma upon
- strike with horror or terror
- strike with disgust or revulsion
- collide violently
- collect or gather into shocks
- subject to electrical shocks
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
- (transitive) To strike with disgust, to offend, scandalize.
- (transitive) To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
- (transitive) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
- (transitive) To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
- (transitive) To give an electric shock to.
- (transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel greatly surprised or upset.
- (geology, transitive) To deform the crystal structure of a stone by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature, as produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.
noun
- a sudden jarring impact
- (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor
- an instance of agitation of the earth's crust
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
- the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
- a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body
- a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field
- a bushy thick mass (especially hair)
- a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses
- (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
- (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
- (physics) A shock wave.
- (medicine) Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
- A sudden, heavy impact.
- (psychology) A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.
- An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
- A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.
- (medicine) Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.
- (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.
- (psychology) A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance, often caused by news or other stimuli.
- (automotive, mechanical engineering) A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).
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- cause (someone) to undergo something
- formulate in a particular style or language
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- adapt
- make an investment
- cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- attribute or give
- estimate
- (finance) To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.
- To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
- To express (something in a certain manner).
- To play a card or a hand in the game called "put".
- To set as a calculation or estimate.
- (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
- (especially athletics) To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)
- To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
- To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.
- To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
- To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).
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- Suffering, torment.
- (Christianity) Christ's ravaging or hostile incursion of Hell, conducted between his crucifixion and resurrection, in which he liberated the souls of the righteous held captive by Satan.
- The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
- Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.
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- A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution.
- A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
- (figuratively) Any harsh treatment or experience; rough handling.
- The act (action) or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a parent or teacher), especially when disappointed or dissatisfied with the behavior or actions of a child, student, or someone else being looked after.
- the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty
noun
- Something cruel or evil; also, something which causes distress or suffering.
- (often humorous) A dish which is devilled (“made piquant or spicy”); a devil; also, the elements of the dish which make it spicy, or the piquancy or spiciness of the dish.
- A devilish, mischievous, or reckless nature; mischievousness.
- Something cleverly constructed.
- (uncountable) Devilish action or conduct; wickedness; (more generally) troublemaking behaviour; mischief; (countable) an instance of this.
- reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
noun
- One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.
- someone who torments
- (figuratively) Something abstract that causes suffering.
- An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
- (theater) One of a pair of narrow curtains just behind the front curtain and teaser that mask the areas on the sides of the stage and can be adjusted to the desired width.
- a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
noun
- Extreme suffering, affliction; torment; torture, especially without reason.
- The condition of a martyr; the death or suffering of a martyr; the death or suffering on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause.
- death that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause
- any experience that causes intense suffering
noun
- Suffering, woe, torment.
- A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
- Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
- A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
- A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
- A block of compressed cannabis.
- A bundle of compressed fibers (especially hay, straw, cotton, or wool), compacted for shipping and handling and bound by twine or wire.
- (collective) A group of turtles.
- a large bundle bound for storage or transport
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- To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
- To drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.
- (Scotland, agriculture) Of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).
- To punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.
- To strike (a person, an animal, etc.) with a scourge (noun etymology 1 sense 1) or whip; to flog, to whip.
- whip
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- punish severely; excoriate
noun
- something causing misery or death
- (weaponry, chiefly historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
- A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
- A person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.
- a whip used to inflict punishment
- a person who inspires fear or dread
verb
- To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
- (intransitive) To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
- To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
- (transitive) To place a curse upon (a person or object).
- (transitive) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
- exclude from a church or a religious community
- utter obscenities or profanities
- heap obscenities upon
- wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
noun
- something causing misery or death
- The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
- A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
- A vulgar epithet.
- A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
- an evil spell
- an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- a severe affliction
noun
- something causing misery or death
- (chiefly Scotland) Alternative spelling of bone.
- (uncountable, UK, dialectal, veterinary medicine) A disease of sheep in which breakdown of tissue occurs; rot.
- (countable) A cause of misery or ruin.
- (uncountable, chiefly poetic) Misery, woe; also, doom, ruin; or physical injury, harm.
verb
noun
- something causing misery or death
- Polar opposite, especially of a literary character.
- The principle of retributive justice.
- The personification of the "fatal flaw" of a dramatic hero in the style of Greek tragedy.
- (usually in the singular, formal) A punishment or defeat that is deserved and cannot be avoided; (an instance of) retribution.
- An enemy, especially an archenemy.
- A person or character who specifically brings about the downfall of another person or character, as an agent of that character's fate or destiny, especially within a narrative.
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verb
verb
noun
- a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
- extreme mental distress
- the act of harassing someone
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- unbearable physical pain
- a severe affliction
- Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
- Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
verb
- To cause distress or pain to (a person or their heart, soul, etc.); to distress, to torment.
- To experience distress, pain, punishment, etc.
- To use effort to draw (a response, words, etc.) from or out of someone; to generate (something) as a response.
- (also figuratively) Often followed by from or out: to extract (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing, twisting, or otherwise putting pressure on it.
- Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out.
- To clasp and twist (hands) together due to distress, sorrow, etc.
- To twist or wind (something) into coils; to coil.
- (mining) Of a lode: to be depleted of ore; to peter or peter out.
- To twist the body in or as if in pain; to writhe.
- To obtain (something) from or out of a person or thing by extortion or other force.
- (materials science) To slide (two ultraflat surfaces) together such that their faces bond.
- To be engaged in clasping and twisting (especially the hands), or exerting pressure.
- To contend, to struggle; also, to strive, to toil.
- (also figuratively) To hold (someone or something) tightly and press or twist; to wrest.
- To squeeze water (from an item of wet clothing) by passing through a wringer.
- To bend or strain (something) out of its position; to wrench, to wrest.
- Of a thing (such as footwear): to pinch or press (a person or part of their body), causing pain.
- To contort or screw up (the face or its features).
- To cause (tears) to come out from a person or their eyes.
- twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish
- twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid
- twist and press out of shape
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
noun
verb
- To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
- To drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.
- (Scotland, agriculture) Of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).
- To punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.
- To strike (a person, an animal, etc.) with a scourge (noun etymology 1 sense 1) or whip; to flog, to whip.
- whip
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- punish severely; excoriate
noun
- something causing misery or death
- (weaponry, chiefly historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
- A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
- A person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.
- a whip used to inflict punishment
- a person who inspires fear or dread
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noun
- (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
- (uncountable, colloquial) A counter or bartop.
- (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- (archaic except Caribbean, Guyana, South Africa, Australia) A pineapple.
- (sports, uncountable, colloquial) The bench, where players sit when not playing.
- straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus
- a coniferous tree
verb
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- torment emotionally or mentally
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- go at a rack
- work on a rack
- fly in high wind
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- torture on the rack
- run before a gale
- draw off from the lees
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- stretch to the limits
noun
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A fast amble.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- A distaff.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- Alternative form of arak.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
verb
noun
- a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
- extreme mental distress
- the act of harassing someone
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- unbearable physical pain
- a severe affliction
- Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
- Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
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noun
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- extreme mental distress
- the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- unbearable physical pain
- The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
- (in figurative or extended use) An unpleasant sensation or its infliction: embarrassment, heartache, etc.
- (BDSM, in combination) Sexual activity involving the infliction of pain to a certain body part or in a certain manner.
- Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body.
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verb
- (figurative) To cause harm or pain to.
- (ambitransitive) To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
- (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain (physically or emotionally).
- (transitive, of an insect or arachnid) To puncture with the stinger.
- cause a stinging pain
- cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- deliver a sting to
noun
- The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
- A sharp, localized pain primarily on the epidermis.
- A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
- The concluding point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
- A brief sequence of music used in films, TV, and video games as a form of scenic punctuation or to identify the broadcasting station.
- A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
- (botany) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
- A goad; incitement.
- A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
- (law enforcement) A police operation in which the police pretend to engage in criminal activity in order to catch a criminal.
- A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
- A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.
- (figurative) The harmful or painful part of something.
- operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
- a mental pain or distress
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
verb
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- hurt the feelings of
- be in pain
- cause damage or affect negatively
- give trouble or pain to
- be the source of pain
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- (transitive, intransitive) To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
- (intransitive, stative) To be painful.
adj
noun
- feelings of mental or physical pain
- the act of damaging something or someone
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- a damage or loss
- psychological suffering
- An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
- (engineering) A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
- A husk.
- (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
verb
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
- (intransitive, India) To feel pain; to hurt.
- (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
noun
- something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
- a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
- a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
- emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
- (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
- (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
- (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
- (now usually in the plural) The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
- (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
verb
- To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
- (intransitive) To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
- To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
- (transitive) To place a curse upon (a person or object).
- (transitive) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
- exclude from a church or a religious community
- utter obscenities or profanities
- heap obscenities upon
- wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
noun
- something causing misery or death
- The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
- A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
- A vulgar epithet.
- A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
- an evil spell
- an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- a severe affliction
verb
- To disturb (someone, their mind, etc.) mentally; to bother, trouble, upset.
- (sciences) To influence (a process or system) so that it deviates from its normal state.
- (intransitive) To bother, to disturb, to trouble.
- (mathematics) To slightly modify (a set of equations or their solutions), producing deviations from a simple, easily solvable problem, in order to find an approximate solution to a problem that is more difficult to solve or otherwise unsolvable.
- To cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed; to cause confusion.
- (astronomy) Of a celestial body: to modify the motion or orbit of (another celestial body) by exerting a gravitational force; hence (physics), to slightly modify (the motion of an object).
- cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- throw into great confusion or disorder
- disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom
verb
- (intransitive) To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
- suffer agony or anguish
- (intransitive) To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately, whether mentally or physically.
- (transitive) To cause agony or anguish in someone.
- (transitive, biochemistry, pharmacology) To act as an agonist upon; to combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction.
- cause to agonize
verb
- To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).
- To rob or mug (someone).
- (transitive) To put up to hang.
- To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
- To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).
- To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.
- (intransitive, figurative) To stop talking.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.
- interrupt a telephone conversation
- put a telephone receiver back in its cradle
- cause to be hanging or suspended
verb
- (transitive) To torment; to torture.
- (transitive) To persecute.
- (transitive) To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
- torture and torment like a martyr
- kill as a martyr
noun
- (by extension) One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
- (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly or constantly, even involuntarily.
- One who willingly accepts being put to death or willingly accepts challenging and exposing iniquity done to oneself for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after red martyrdom.
- (derogatory) Someone who exaggerates their pain and suffering in order to gain sympathy.
- one who suffers for the sake of principle
- one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion
verb
- inflict a trauma upon
- strike with horror or terror
- strike with disgust or revulsion
- collide violently
- collect or gather into shocks
- subject to electrical shocks
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
- (transitive) To strike with disgust, to offend, scandalize.
- (transitive) To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
- (transitive) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
- (transitive) To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
- (transitive) To give an electric shock to.
- (transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel greatly surprised or upset.
- (geology, transitive) To deform the crystal structure of a stone by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature, as produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.
noun
- a sudden jarring impact
- (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor
- an instance of agitation of the earth's crust
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
- the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
- a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body
- a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field
- a bushy thick mass (especially hair)
- a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses
- (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
- (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
- (physics) A shock wave.
- (medicine) Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
- A sudden, heavy impact.
- (psychology) A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.
- An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
- A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.
- (medicine) Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.
- (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.
- (psychology) A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance, often caused by news or other stimuli.
- (automotive, mechanical engineering) A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).
adj
verb
- cause (someone) to undergo something
- formulate in a particular style or language
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- adapt
- make an investment
- cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- attribute or give
- estimate
- (finance) To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.
- To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
- To express (something in a certain manner).
- To play a card or a hand in the game called "put".
- To set as a calculation or estimate.
- (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
- (especially athletics) To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)
- To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
- To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.
- To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
- To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).
noun
adj
adj
adj
- causing misery or pain or distress
- Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
- causing physical or psychological pain
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
- causing physical discomfort
- (informal) Very bad, poor.
- Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
- Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
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adv
verb
adj
- Of behaviour which gives pleasure in the pain or humiliation of others.
- Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.
- (colloquial) Causing a high degree of pain or humiliation.
- (slang, colloquial, semantic bleaching) The behavior of one who enjoys teasing others.
- deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another
adj
- Causing great sadness or suffering.
- (informal, chiefly predicative) Cringeworthy; tryhard; unhip; embarrassing; hopeless; indicative of (or having) a chronic lack of self-awareness.
- Relating to tragedy in a literary work.
- (in tabloid newspapers) Having been the victim of a tragedy.
- of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy
- very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction