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121hurt — v 1. ache, smart, burn, sting, bite, nip, pinch, gripe; gnaw, grind, grate, rasp, chafe; throb, palpitate, tingle. 2. injure, wound; cut, scratch, prick, pierce, stab, lancinate; bruise, sprain, strain; beat, pommel, batter, pound, lay on, drub;… …
122martyr — n 1. sufferer, victim; breast beater, self flagellator, Fig. masochist. v 2. martyrize, make a martyr of; throw to the lions, burn at the stake, immolate, stone, lapidate, nail to the cross, crucify, impale. 3. torture, persecute, harrow, agonize …
123pain — n 1. hurt, ache, aching, smart, smarting, soreness, discomfort; twinge, pinch, gripe, nip, pang, shock, crick, stitch, stabbing pain, sharp pain; throb, throbbing, gnawing pain, burning pain. 2. torture, torment, rack, agony; anguish, grief, woe …
124persecute — v 1. torture, agonize, excruciate, martyr, rack, crucify, dragoon; pain, hurt, scathe, wring, put someone through the wringer; punish, castigate, abuse, beat, beat up, Sl. work over, Sl. give one the works, Archaic. belabor; molest, mistreat,… …
125plague — n 1. pestilence, epidemic, pandemic, pandemia, zymosis, (of animals) Pathol. epizootic, (of animals) Pathol. epizooty, (of animals) murrain, (of plants) epiphytotic; bubonic plague, black plague, black death; white plague, tuberculosis, TB,… …
126rack — n 1. frame, framing, framework, trestle, arbot, scaffolding, structure; stretcher, form, Both Textiles. drawing frame, perch; hanger, clothes or hat tree or rack, bar, pole, dowel; stand, trivet, grate, grating, holder; crib, cradle, bed, Naut.… …
127sting — v 1. prick, nettle, bite, nip, snip, pinch; prick, stick, stab, pierce, wound, envenom; smart, burn, chafe, grate, rasp, gall, irritate; gripe, grind, gnaw. 2. hurt, pain, injure, cut to the quick, excruciate, rack, wring; grieve, aggrieve,… …
128torment — v 1. agonize, excruciate, torture, rack, martyr, crucify; pain, hurt, scathe, lacerate, wring, put someone through the wringer; persecute, abuse, beat, Archaic. belabor. 2. anguish, distress, harrow, worry, trouble, disturb, Scot. fash; afflict,… …
