| Main Entry: | smart |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurt, pain |
Synonyms: |
ache, be painful, bite, burn, prick, prickle, sting, suffer, throb, tingle |
Antonyms: |
assuage, help, soothe |
| Main Entry: | smarting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful |
Synonyms: |
aching, achy, afflictive, agonizing, arduous, awful*, biting, burning, caustic, difficult, dire, disagreeable, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, excruciating, extreme, extremely bad, grievous, hard, harrowing, hurtful, hurting, inflamed, irritated, laborious, nagging, piercing, raw, saddening, sensitive, severe, sharp, sore, stinging, tedious, tender, terrible, throbbing, tormenting, troublesome, trying, uncomfortable, unpleasant, vexatious |
| Main Entry: | ache |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sore feeling; dull pain |
Synonyms: |
anguish, hurt, misery, pang, pounding, smarting, soreness, spasm, suffering, throb, throbbing, throe, twinge |
| Notes: | a pain is something that hurts; an ache is a prolonged dull pain |
Antonyms: |
comfort, ease, health, relief |
| Main Entry: | ache |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feeling soreness or dull pain, often physical |
Synonyms: |
be sore, hurt, pain, pound, smart, suffer, throb, twinge |
| Main Entry: | bite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury from gripping, tearing |
Synonyms: |
chaw, chomp, gob, itch, laceration, nip, pain, pinch, prick, smarting, sting, tooth marks, wound |
| Main Entry: | bite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | corrode, eat away |
Synonyms: |
burn, consume, decay, decompose, deteriorate, dissolve, eat into, engrave, erode, etch, oxidize, rot, rust, scour, sear, slash, smart, sting, tingle, wear away |
| Main Entry: | burn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feel stinging pain |
Synonyms: |
bite, hurt, pain, smart, sting, tingle |
| Main Entry: | burning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stinging, painful |
Synonyms: |
acrid, biting, caustic, irritating, painful, piercing, prickling, pungent, reeking, sharp, smarting, tingling |
| Main Entry: | hurt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause physical pain; experience pain |
Synonyms: |
abuse, ache, afflict, ail, be sore, be tender, belt, bite, blemish, bruise, burn, cramp, cut, cut up, damage, disable, do violence, flail, flog, harm, impair, injure, kick, lacerate, lash, maltreat, mar, maul, mess up, nip, pierce, pinch, pommel, prick, pummel, punch, puncture, punish, rough up, shake up, slap, slug, smart, spank, spoil, squeeze, stab, sting, tear, throb, torment, torture, total, trouble, wax, whack, whip, wing, wound, wrack up, wring |
Antonyms: |
aid, assist, assuage, cure, heal, help, relieve, remedy, soothe |
| Main Entry: | pain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical suffering |
Synonyms: |
ache, affliction, agony, burn, catch, convulsion, cramp, crick, discomfort, distress, fever, gripe, hurt, illness, injury, irritation, laceration, malady, misery, pang, paroxysm, prick, sickness, smarting, soreness, spasm, sting, stitch, strain, tenderness, throb, throe, tingle, torment, torture, trouble, twinge, wound |
Antonyms: |
comfort, good health, health, well-being |