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pain
noun as in physical suffering
noun as in mental suffering
Strongest matches
agony, anguish, anxiety, bitterness, grief, heartache, misery, sadness, shock, suffering, torment, woe, worry
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affliction, despondency, distress, hurt, malaise, martyrdom, rack, torture, travail, tribulation, wretchedness
noun as in problem
verb as in bother, trouble
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ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, annoy, bite, chafe, chasten, constrain, convulse, discomfort, disquiet, distress, exasperate, excruciate, gall, grieve, gripe, harass, harm, harrow, hurt, inflame, injure, irk, irritate, nick, prick, punish, rack, rile, sadden, smart, sting, strain, stress, suffer, throb, tingle, torment, torture, upset, vex, worry, wound
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Example Sentences
She hadn’t slept all night, she said in an interview: “We have been in so much pain.”
Most of investors’ aluminum-related pain, however, might already have been felt.
That is putting pressure on most stocks, but the greatest pain was in AI names, including software providers, chip makers, and other hardware and manufacturing companies that build products for data centers.
With the furniture tariffs, the pain could be felt largely by shoppers, due to price increases, rather than by the companies selling sofas and loveseats.
"His mother and sister are returning from US on Thursday. The father is not in the condition to express the pain in words."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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