| Main Entry: | excruciate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | afflict |
Synonyms: |
agonize, anguish, bother, curse, distress, harass, hurt, mistreat, plague, smite, torment, torture |
| Main Entry: | agonize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suffer or cause another to suffer |
Synonyms: |
afflict, bleed, carry on, crucify, distress, disturb, eat heart out, excruciate, harrow, hurt, labor, lament, martyr, pain, rack, sing the blues, squirm, stew over, strain, strive, struggle, take it badly, torment, torture, try, wince, worry, writhe |
Antonyms: |
not worry |
| Main Entry: | crucify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | execute; torture near to death |
Synonyms: |
excruciate, hang, harrow, kill, martyr, martyrize, nail to cross, persecute, rack, torment, torture |
Antonyms: |
exalt |
| Main Entry: | hurt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause mental pain |
Synonyms: |
abuse, afflict, aggrieve, annoy, burn, chafe, constrain, cut to the quick, discomfit, discommode, displease, distress, excruciate, faze, give no quarter, go for jugular, grieve, hit where one lives, injure, lambaste, lay a bad trip on, lean on, martyr, martyrize, prejudice, punish, put down, put out, sadden, sting*, thumb nose at, torment, torture, try, upset, vex, vitiate, work over, wound, zing |
Antonyms: |
calm, placate, please, relieve, soothe |
| Main Entry: | pain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, trouble |
Synonyms: |
ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, annoy, bite, chafe, chasten, constrain, convulse, cut to the quick, discomfort, disquiet, distress, exasperate, excruciate, gall, grieve, gripe, harass, harm, harrow, hit where one lives, hurt, inflame, injure, irk, irritate, nick, prick, punish, rack, rile, sadden, smart, sting, strain, stress, suffer, throb, tingle, torment, torture, upset, vex, worry, wound |
| Notes: | a pain is something that hurts; an ache is a prolonged dull pain a pain is something that hurts as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder; a pane is a sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors |
Antonyms: |
aid, assist, assuage, help, please |
| Main Entry: | rack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | torture; strain |
Synonyms: |
afflict, agonize, crucify, distress, excruciate, force, harass, harrow, martyr, oppress, pain, persecute, pull, shake, stress, stretch, tear, torment, try, wrench, wring |
Antonyms: |
please, pleasure, soothe |
| Main Entry: | strike |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | devastate, affect |
Synonyms: |
afflict, aggress, assail, assault, attack, beset, deal a blow, excruciate, fall upon, harrow, hit, invade, martyr, rack, set upon, smite, storm, torment, torture, try, wring |
Antonyms: |
not touch, pass up |
| Main Entry: | torment |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be or make very upset |
Synonyms: |
abuse, afflict, agonize, annoy, bait, bedevil, bone, bother, break, crucify, devil, distress, drive bananas, drive up the wall, excruciate, give a hard time, harass, harrow, harry, heckle, hound, hurt, irritate, mistreat, molest, nag, pain, persecute, pester, plague, play cat and mouse, provoke, punish, put through wringer, rack, rub salt in wound, smite, tease, torture, trouble, try, vex, worry, wring |
Antonyms: |
delight, make happy, please |
| Main Entry: | torture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | upset or hurt severely |
Synonyms: |
abuse, afflict, agonize, annoy, beat, bother, crucify, distress, disturb, excruciate, grill, harrow, impale, injure, irritate, lacerate, maim, mangle, martyr, martyrize, mistreat, mutilate, oppress, pain, persecute, rack, smite, torment, try, whip, wound, wring, wrong |
Antonyms: |
alleviate, make happy, please, relieve |
| Main Entry: | try |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, afflict |
Synonyms: |
agonize, annoy, crucify, distress, excruciate, harass, inconvenience, irk, irritate, martyr, pain, plague, rack, strain, stress, tax, tire, torment, torture, trouble, upset, vex, weary, wring |
Antonyms: |
delight, please |