| Main Entry: | twinge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sharp pain |
Synonyms: |
ache, bite, gripe, lancination, misery, pang, pinch, prick, shiver, smart, spasm, stab, stitch, throb, throe, tic, tweak, twist, twitch |
| 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: | cramp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muscle spasm |
Synonyms: |
ache, charley horse, circumscription, confinement, constipation, contraction, convulsion, crick, hindrance, impediment, kink, obstruction, pain, pang, restriction, shooting pain, stiffness, stitch, stricture, twinge |
| Main Entry: | crick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muscle spasm |
Synonyms: |
ache, charley horse, convulsion, cramp, jarring, kink, pain, stitch, twinge, wrench |
| Main Entry: | distress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pain, agony |
Synonyms: |
ache, affliction, anguish, anxiety, bad news, blues, care, concern, cross, dejection, desolation, disappointment, discomfort, disquietude, dolor, embarrassment, grief, headache, heartache, heartbreak, irritation, malaise, misery, mortification, ordeal, pang, perplexity, sadness, shame, sorrow, stew, suffering, throe, torment, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, twinge, unconsolability, unhappiness, vexation, visitation, woe, worriment, worry, wretchedness |
Antonyms: |
comfort, happiness, health, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | injury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hurt, harm |
Synonyms: |
abrasion, abuse, affliction, affront, agony, bad, bite, blemish, boo-boo, bruise, burn, chop, cramp, cut, damage, deformation, detriment, discomfiture, disservice, distress, evil, fracture, gash, grievance, hemorrhage, ill, impairment, indignity, injustice, insult, laceration, lesion, libel, loss, mischief, misery, mutilation, nick, ouch, outrage, pang, ruin, scar, scratch, shock, slander, sore, sprain, stab, sting, suffering, swelling, trauma, twinge, wound, wrong |
Antonyms: |
aid, assistance, benefit, blessing, favor, good, health, help, right |
| Main Entry: | kink |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spasm of muscular tissue |
Synonyms: |
charley horse, cramp, crick, knot, muscle spasm, pain, pang, pinch, stab, stitch, tweak, twinge |
| Main Entry: | misery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pain, mental or physical |
Synonyms: |
ache, agony, anguish, anvil chorus, bad news, blues, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, distress, dolor, gloom, grief, hardship, headache, heartache, hurting, melancholy, pang, passion, sadness, sorrow, squalor, stitch, suffering, throe, torment, torture, twinge, unhappiness, woe, worriment, worry, wretchedness |
Antonyms: |
cheer, delight, fun, gladness, happiness, joy, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | nip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bite; take small part |
Synonyms: |
catch, clip, compress, grip, munch, nab at, nibble, pinch, sink teeth into, snag, snap*, snip, squeeze*, take a chunk out of, tweak, twinge, twitch |
Antonyms: |
gorge |