English words for 'a cause of difficulty and suffering'
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noun
- a cause of difficulty and suffering
- noisy and unrestrained mischief
- a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
- a light-colored marking
- a strong flame that burns brightly
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- (hiking) A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
- A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- (poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.
verb
- shoot rapidly and repeatedly
- move rapidly and as if blazing
- burn brightly and intensely
- shine brightly and intensively
- indicate by marking trees with blazes
- (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.
- (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.
- (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
- (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
- (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet.
- (slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
- (transitive) To mark off or stake a claim to land.
- (transitive, figurative) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
- (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- (transitive, heraldry) To blazon.
- (figurative) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
- (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
noun
- a cause of difficulty and suffering
- noisy and unrestrained mischief
- any place of pain and turmoil
- (figuratively) An extremely hot place.
- (countable, hyperbolic, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
- (countable) A place for gambling.
- In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- (sometimes vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
- (colloquial, usually with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
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- cause to suffer
- To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.
- To pursue in a manner to do harm or cruelty to; especially, because of the victim's race, sexual identity, or adherence to a particular belief.
- To kill many of one species of animal, with the intent of removing them from human habitats.
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- resulting in suffering or adversity
- distressing
- presaging ill fortune
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- indicating hostility or enmity
- (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
- (Appalachia) Bad-tempered.
- (slang, chiefly hip-hop) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- Nauseated; having an urge to vomit.
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
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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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noun
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species
- a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A line across or through another line.
- (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- (Christianity) Any representation of the crucifix, as in religious architecture, burial markers, jewelry, etc.
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the cross.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Cross (“the Crucifix, the cross on which Christ was crucified”).
- (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
- (slang) Crossfire.
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- (soccer) A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
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- extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
- annoyed and irritable
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
- (chiefly British, Ottawa Valley) (of someone) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed; (of words) tinged with anger.
- (nautical) Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
verb
- meet at a point
- fold so as to resemble a cross
- breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
- trace a line through or across
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- meet and pass
- travel across or pass over
- (transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- (transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- (soccer) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
- (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- To mark with an X.
- (law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
- (transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- (transitive) To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
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noun
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- a mock crown made of thorn branches that Roman soldiers placed on Jesus before the Crucifixion
- somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts
- A woodworking technique, used in tramp art, in which interlocking pieces are notched to intersect at right angles and form joints and self-supporting objects.
- The plant Koeberlinia spinosa.
- A spiny Mediterranean tree, Ziziphus spina-christi.
- Ellipsis of crown-of-thorns starfish
- (Christianity) The crown made of a thorny plant that Christ was forced to wear before his Crucifixion, in mocking reference to his alleged status as ‘king of the Jews’, or a representation of this.
- A spiny spurge, Euphorbia milii, native to Madagascar.
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- cause to agonize
- suffer agony or anguish
- (intransitive) To writhe with agony; to suffer violent 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.
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- (roofing) A method of asphalt shingle application, whereby shingle courses are applied vertically, up the roof rather than laterally across and up.
- (nautical) spun yarn used in racking ropes
- (brewing) The process of clarifying, and thereby deterring further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
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- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- be the source of pain
- hurt the feelings of
- be in pain
- cause damage or affect negatively
- give trouble or pain to
- (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.
noun
- psychological suffering
- 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
- 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).
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- 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.
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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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- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- a source of difficulty
- an event causing distress or pain
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
- an unwanted pregnancy
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an effort that is inconvenient
- an angry disturbance
verb
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- move deeply
adj
- characterized by physical misery
- of very poor quality or condition
- of the most contemptible kind
- deserving or inciting pity
- contemptibly small in amount
- very unhappy; full of misery
- Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless.
- Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
- Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible.
- In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
noun
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- characterized by physical misery
- of very poor quality or condition
- morally reprehensible
- deserving or inciting pity
- very unhappy; full of misery
- Of an inferior or unworthy nature or social status; contemptible, lowly.
- (informal) Used to express annoyance towards or dislike of someone or something: bloody, damned.
- Of weather: causing much discomfort; very unpleasant; miserable.
- Of a person, etc.: behaving in a manner causing contempt; base, despicable, wicked.
- Of an insignificant, mean, or poor nature; miserable, paltry, worthless.
- Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable.
noun
- Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
- The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
- (literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
- (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion.
- (theology, philosophy) In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
- a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
- a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
- a style that has the power to evoke feelings
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noun
- any experience that causes intense suffering
- A type of monumental public Christian cross, sometimes encased in an open shrine.
- Misspelling of cavalry.
- (by extension, figuratively) A strenuous experience.
- A series of representations of Christ’s Passion in a church.
- A life-size representation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on a piece of raised ground.
noun
- any experience that causes intense suffering
- death that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause
- 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.
- Extreme suffering, affliction; torment; torture, especially without reason.
noun
- Suffering, hardship.
- something that causes great unhappiness
- (countable) A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial.
- Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
- intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
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- a painful or straitened circumstance
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a slight but appreciable amount
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
- (slang) An arrest.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A steep incline; a very steep section of road.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
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- irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
- cut the top off
- make ridges into by pinching together
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- make off with belongings of others
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
verb
- to suffer from stress
- test the limits of
- put stress on; utter with an accent
- to stress, single out as important
- (transitive) To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
- (transitive) To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
- (transitive) To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
- (transitive) To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
- (transitive) To emphasise (words in speaking).
- (intransitive, informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
noun
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
- special emphasis attached to something
- the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
- (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body
- (countable, physics) Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
- (uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
- (uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
- (biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
- (countable, phonetics, loosely) A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence.
- (countable, phonetics, strictly) The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch.
- (biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
- (Scots law) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
- (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
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noun
- psychological suffering
- extreme physical pain
- a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
- the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim
- (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
- A cause of such discomfort.
- Serious danger.
- (medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
- (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
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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noun
- an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress
- the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)
- the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin
- the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
- the pressure exerted by the atmosphere
- a force that compels
- the state of demanding notice or attention
- (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
- Distress.
- Urgency.
- A contrasting force or impulse of any kind.
- A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
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adj
- being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering
- habitual
- persisting for a long time
- (informal) Extremely serious.
- (slang) Very bad, awful.
- Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.
- (slang) Good, great; "wicked".
- (medicine) Prolonged or slow to heal.
- Inveterate or habitual.
- Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.
noun
- A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.
- (slang) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
- (medicine) A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the term.
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- involved in difficulties
- deeply involved especially in something complicated
- twisted together in a tangled mass
- Tangled or twisted together.
- (quantum mechanics, of two quantum states) Correlated, even though physically separated; (referring to a state of a composite system) not separable.
- (figurative) Confused or complicated.
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- deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
- deprive of food
- be hungry; go without food
- die of food deprivation
- have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
- (transitive) To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
- (intransitive) To be very hungry.
- (transitive) To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
- (transitive) To make suffer severely by depriving of food.
- (intransitive) To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
- (transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
- (transitive) To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
- (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
noun
- a source of difficulty
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a question raised for consideration or solution
- Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
- Objection.
- A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
- An addiction, other substance use disorder, or comparable psychological challenge.
- A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
- A puzzling circumstance.
- (climbing) A set of moves required to complete a climb.
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- characterized by quickness and ease in learning
- capable of independent and apparently intelligent action
- elegant and stylish
- improperly forward or bold
- painfully severe
- showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
- quick and brisk
- Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
- (Appalachia) Hard-working.
- (often in combination) Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).
- Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
- Causing sharp pain; stinging.
- Sharp; keen; poignant.
- Sudden and intense.
- (informal) Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
- Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
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- A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
- something causing misery or death
- (weaponry, chiefly historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
- 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 drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.
- To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
- (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
- (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
- 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
- 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.
verb
- exclude from a church or a religious community
- utter obscenities or profanities
- heap obscenities upon
- wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
- (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).
- 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.
- (transitive) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
noun
- a cause of difficulty and suffering
- noisy and unrestrained mischief
- a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
- a light-colored marking
- a strong flame that burns brightly
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- (hiking) A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
- A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- (poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.
verb
- shoot rapidly and repeatedly
- move rapidly and as if blazing
- burn brightly and intensely
- shine brightly and intensively
- indicate by marking trees with blazes
- (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.
- (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.
- (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
- (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
- (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet.
- (slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
- (transitive) To mark off or stake a claim to land.
- (transitive, figurative) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
- (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- (transitive, heraldry) To blazon.
- (figurative) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
- (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
noun
- a cause of difficulty and suffering
- noisy and unrestrained mischief
- any place of pain and turmoil
- (figuratively) An extremely hot place.
- (countable, hyperbolic, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
- (countable) A place for gambling.
- In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- (sometimes vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
- (colloquial, usually with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
adv
intj
name
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species
- a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A line across or through another line.
- (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- (Christianity) Any representation of the crucifix, as in religious architecture, burial markers, jewelry, etc.
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the cross.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Cross (“the Crucifix, the cross on which Christ was crucified”).
- (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
- (slang) Crossfire.
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- (soccer) A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
adj
- extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
- annoyed and irritable
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
- (chiefly British, Ottawa Valley) (of someone) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed; (of words) tinged with anger.
- (nautical) Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
verb
- meet at a point
- fold so as to resemble a cross
- breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
- trace a line through or across
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- meet and pass
- travel across or pass over
- (transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- (transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- (soccer) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
- (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- To mark with an X.
- (law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
- (transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- (transitive) To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
prep
noun
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- a mock crown made of thorn branches that Roman soldiers placed on Jesus before the Crucifixion
- somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts
- A woodworking technique, used in tramp art, in which interlocking pieces are notched to intersect at right angles and form joints and self-supporting objects.
- The plant Koeberlinia spinosa.
- A spiny Mediterranean tree, Ziziphus spina-christi.
- Ellipsis of crown-of-thorns starfish
- (Christianity) The crown made of a thorny plant that Christ was forced to wear before his Crucifixion, in mocking reference to his alleged status as ‘king of the Jews’, or a representation of this.
- A spiny spurge, Euphorbia milii, native to Madagascar.
noun
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- a source of difficulty
- an event causing distress or pain
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
- an unwanted pregnancy
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an effort that is inconvenient
- an angry disturbance
verb
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- move deeply
noun
- Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
- The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
- (literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
- (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion.
- (theology, philosophy) In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
- a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
- a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
- a style that has the power to evoke feelings
noun
- any experience that causes intense suffering
- A type of monumental public Christian cross, sometimes encased in an open shrine.
- Misspelling of cavalry.
- (by extension, figuratively) A strenuous experience.
- A series of representations of Christ’s Passion in a church.
- A life-size representation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on a piece of raised ground.
noun
- any experience that causes intense suffering
- death that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause
- 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.
- Extreme suffering, affliction; torment; torture, especially without reason.
noun
- Suffering, hardship.
- something that causes great unhappiness
- (countable) A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial.
- Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
- intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
verb
noun
noun
- a painful or straitened circumstance
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a slight but appreciable amount
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
- (slang) An arrest.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A steep incline; a very steep section of road.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
verb
- irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
- cut the top off
- make ridges into by pinching together
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- make off with belongings of others
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
adj
noun
adv
verb
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
verb
noun
- an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress
- the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)
- the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin
- the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
- the pressure exerted by the atmosphere
- a force that compels
- the state of demanding notice or attention
- (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
- Distress.
- Urgency.
- A contrasting force or impulse of any kind.
- A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
verb
verb
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- be the source of pain
- hurt the feelings of
- be in pain
- cause damage or affect negatively
- give trouble or pain to
- (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.
noun
- psychological suffering
- 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
- 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).
adj
verb
noun
- psychological suffering
- extreme physical pain
- a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
- the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim
- (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
- A cause of such discomfort.
- Serious danger.
- (medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
- (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
noun
verb
noun
- a source of difficulty
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a question raised for consideration or solution
- Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
- Objection.
- A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
- An addiction, other substance use disorder, or comparable psychological challenge.
- A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
- A puzzling circumstance.
- (climbing) A set of moves required to complete a climb.
adj
noun
- A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.
- something causing misery or death
- (weaponry, chiefly historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
- 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 drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.
- To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.
- (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
- (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
- 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
- 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.
verb
- exclude from a church or a religious community
- utter obscenities or profanities
- heap obscenities upon
- wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
- (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).
- 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.
- (transitive) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
verb
- cause to suffer
- To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.
- To pursue in a manner to do harm or cruelty to; especially, because of the victim's race, sexual identity, or adherence to a particular belief.
- To kill many of one species of animal, with the intent of removing them from human habitats.
verb
- cause to agonize
- suffer agony or anguish
- (intransitive) To writhe with agony; to suffer violent 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.
verb
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- be the source of pain
- hurt the feelings of
- be in pain
- cause damage or affect negatively
- give trouble or pain to
- (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.
noun
- psychological suffering
- 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
- 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).
adj
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 suffer from stress
- test the limits of
- put stress on; utter with an accent
- to stress, single out as important
- (transitive) To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
- (transitive) To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
- (transitive) To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
- (transitive) To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
- (transitive) To emphasise (words in speaking).
- (intransitive, informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
noun
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
- special emphasis attached to something
- the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
- (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body
- (countable, physics) Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
- (uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
- (uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
- (biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
- (countable, phonetics, loosely) A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence.
- (countable, phonetics, strictly) The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch.
- (biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
- (Scots law) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
- (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
verb
noun
- psychological suffering
- extreme physical pain
- a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
- the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim
- (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
- A cause of such discomfort.
- Serious danger.
- (medicine, psychology) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
- (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
verb
- deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
- deprive of food
- be hungry; go without food
- die of food deprivation
- have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
- (transitive) To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
- (intransitive) To be very hungry.
- (transitive) To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
- (transitive) To make suffer severely by depriving of food.
- (intransitive) To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
- (transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
- (transitive) To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
- (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
verb
noun
verb
adj
- characterized by quickness and ease in learning
- capable of independent and apparently intelligent action
- elegant and stylish
- improperly forward or bold
- painfully severe
- showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
- quick and brisk
- Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
- (Appalachia) Hard-working.
- (often in combination) Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).
- Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
- Causing sharp pain; stinging.
- Sharp; keen; poignant.
- Sudden and intense.
- (informal) Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
- Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
noun
noun
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- a source of difficulty
- an event causing distress or pain
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
- an unwanted pregnancy
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an effort that is inconvenient
- an angry disturbance
verb
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- move deeply
adj
- resulting in suffering or adversity
- distressing
- presaging ill fortune
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- indicating hostility or enmity
- (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
- (Appalachia) Bad-tempered.
- (slang, chiefly hip-hop) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- Nauseated; having an urge to vomit.
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
noun
adv
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).
adj
noun
adv
verb
adj
noun
- (roofing) A method of asphalt shingle application, whereby shingle courses are applied vertically, up the roof rather than laterally across and up.
- (nautical) spun yarn used in racking ropes
- (brewing) The process of clarifying, and thereby deterring further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
verb
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
noun
adj
- characterized by physical misery
- of very poor quality or condition
- of the most contemptible kind
- deserving or inciting pity
- contemptibly small in amount
- very unhappy; full of misery
- Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless.
- Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
- Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible.
- In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
noun
adj
- characterized by physical misery
- of very poor quality or condition
- morally reprehensible
- deserving or inciting pity
- very unhappy; full of misery
- Of an inferior or unworthy nature or social status; contemptible, lowly.
- (informal) Used to express annoyance towards or dislike of someone or something: bloody, damned.
- Of weather: causing much discomfort; very unpleasant; miserable.
- Of a person, etc.: behaving in a manner causing contempt; base, despicable, wicked.
- Of an insignificant, mean, or poor nature; miserable, paltry, worthless.
- Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable.
adj
- being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering
- habitual
- persisting for a long time
- (informal) Extremely serious.
- (slang) Very bad, awful.
- Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.
- (slang) Good, great; "wicked".
- (medicine) Prolonged or slow to heal.
- Inveterate or habitual.
- Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.
noun
- A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.
- (slang) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
- (medicine) A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the term.
adj
- involved in difficulties
- deeply involved especially in something complicated
- twisted together in a tangled mass
- Tangled or twisted together.
- (quantum mechanics, of two quantum states) Correlated, even though physically separated; (referring to a state of a composite system) not separable.
- (figurative) Confused or complicated.