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crown of thorns
agonize
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devilment
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subject
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sore
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tormenting
ache
grief
aggrieve
tear
pang
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torture
rack
a boon or a bane
wringer
tragic
vex
boon or bane
down with
cry
mischance
tormentor
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woe
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cost dear
bugger
kill
ail
afflicted
pathematic
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trouble
hurt
pain
Hurtville
racking
sympathy
calvary
painy
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martyrdom
ill
wrenching
insult
catch
agonal
troubling
boon and bane
decatenate
a boon and a bane
agonise
touch
too close for comfort
pain in the ass
run
distressingly
peril
-pathy
afflictingly
scathe
sodomise
fix someone's wagon
have
nightmare
human action
human activity
act
wretched
deed
go hard with someone
lachrymatory
misery
afflictive
sore
painful
tormenting
tragic
afflicted
pathematic
racking
painy
ill
wrenching
agonal
too close for comfort
wretched
lachrymatory
rackingly
distressingly
afflictingly
hardship
cross
crown of thorns
devilment
affliction
evil
nemesis
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curse
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grief
tear
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Hurtville
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pain
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sting
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run
scathe
sodomise
fix someone's wagon
have
go hard with someone
hardship
noun
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- (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
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
adj
- extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
- annoyed and irritable
verb
verb
noun
- Something cruel or evil; also, something which causes distress or suffering.
- Devilish action or conduct; wickedness; (more generally) troublemaking behaviour; mischief; (countable) an instance of this.
- A devilish, mischievous, or reckless nature; mischievousness.
- Something cleverly constructed.
- 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.
verb
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- some situation or event that is thought about
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
adj
noun
- That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
- A rampage.
- A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
- A hole or break caused by tearing.
- A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
- Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
verb
- To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
- To injure as if by pulling apart.
- To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
- To produce tears.
- To make (an opening) with force or energy.
- To become torn, especially accidentally.
- To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
- To remove by tearing.
- To smash or enter something with great force.
- To demolish
verb
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- To strike in the testicles.
- To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
noun
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- A distaff.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- A woman's breasts.
- A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- A bunk.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- Sleep.
- A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- 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.
- A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
- A fast amble.
- 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.
verb
- To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
- To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
- To shed tears; to weep.
- To shout, scream, yell.
- To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
- To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
- Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
noun
noun
- Something abstract that causes suffering.
- An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
- One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.
- 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.
noun
- A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
- One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
- Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
- A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
- Someone who is very fond of something
- Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
- A whippersnapper, a tyke.
verb
- To have anal sex with, sodomize.
- To feel contempt for some person or thing.
- To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.
- To be fatigued.
- To be surprised.
- To break or ruin.
intj
verb
- To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- To punish severely.
- To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- To produce intense pain.
- To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- To exert an overwhelming effect on.
- To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To force a company out of business.
- To deadmelt.
- To render inoperative.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- To use up or to waste.
- To cause to assume the value zero.
- To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
noun
noun
- The harmful or painful part of something.
- A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermis
- A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.
- The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
- A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.
- 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 pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
- A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
- A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
- A goad; incitement.
- A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
- The concluding point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
- A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
verb
verb
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- be the source of pain
- give trouble or pain to
- cause damage or affect negatively
- hurt the feelings of
- feel physical pain
- be in pain
noun
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- psychological suffering
- feelings of mental or physical pain
- a damage or loss
- the act of damaging something or someone
adj
verb
noun
noun
- A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
- Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions.
- Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting.
- The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
- The ability to share the feelings of another.
- Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it.
- An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
- Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude.
verb
- To cause pain or distress to (someone / one's heart, soul, etc.).
- To slide two ultraflat surfaces together such that their faces bond.
- To bend or strain out of its position.
- To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out.
- To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it.
- To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force.
- To draw (something from or out of someone); to generate (something) as a response.
- To hold (something) tightly and press or twist.
noun
noun
- Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.
- Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).
- Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.
verb
verb
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
noun
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
- To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
- To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- To concern, to have to do with.
- To make physical contact with a thing.
- To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- To consume, or otherwise use.
- To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- To come close to; to approach.
noun
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- The children's game of tag.
- A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of borrowing or stealing something.
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- Form; standard of performance.
verb
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- To print or broadcast in the media.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- To be a candidate in an election.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- To control or manage, be in charge of.
- To smuggle (illegal goods).
- To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To make run in a race.
- To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
- To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- To speedrun.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To move or spread quickly.
- To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- To make a machine operate.
- To become liquid; to melt.
- To make something extend in space.
- Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
- To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
- To be presented in the media.
- Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- To cost a large amount of money.
- Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- Of a liquid, to flow.
- To compete in a race.
- Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To make run in an election.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- To have growth or development.
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
- To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
verb
- To cause great humiliation or harm to (someone or something); to cause great damage to (something, especially from behind).
- To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent).
- To commit sodomy; to engage in anal sex.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with (an animal), to engage in bestiality.
verb
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- To obtain.
- To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- See have to.
- To defeat in a fight; take.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- To cause to be.
- To be able to speak (a language).
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- To trick, to deceive.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To allow; to tolerate.
- To depict as being.
- To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
- To possess, own.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To give birth to.
noun
noun
- something that people do or cause to happen
- a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
- a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a manifestation of insincerity
verb
- perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- play a role or part
- discharge one's duties
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- be suitable for theatrical performance
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- be engaged in an activity, often for no particular purpose other than pleasure
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- perform on a stage or theater
adj
- Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable.
- Of a person, etc.: behaving in a manner deserving contempt; base, despicable, wicked.
- Of weather: causing much discomfort; very unpleasant; miserable.
- Of an inferior or unworthy nature or social status; contemptible, lowly.
- Of an insignificant, mean, or poor nature; miserable, paltry, worthless.
- Used to express annoyance towards or dislike of someone or something: bloody, damned.
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