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Noun
▲
A continuous or prolonged dull pain in a part of one's body
pain
pang
twinge
cramp
smart
smarting
spasm
throb
discomfort
sting
hurt
irritation
soreness
suffering
tenderness
throe
convulsion
gnawing
pounding
prick
shoot
stabbing
stinging
stitch
throbbing
tingle
dull pain
aching
backache
headache
muscular spasm
niggle
stomachache
more ❯
“I felt a painful ache in my chest and my air was getting cut off.”
Noun
▲
An emotion experienced with painful or bittersweet intensity
anguish
pain
suffering
distress
grief
misery
sorrow
torture
mourning
agony
sadness
torment
woe
wretchedness
affliction
heartache
heartbreak
hurt
pang
trauma
shock
excruciation
travail
tribulation
straits
rack
dolor
twinge
blow
discomfort
more ❯
“Her smile of ecstasy vanished, and she felt an empty ache in her heart.”
Noun
▲
Rare spelling of aitch
longing
craving
desire
hunger
pining
hankering
hope
need
wish
yearning
yen
hungering
itch
thirst
urge
burning
lust
drive
appetite
appetency
passion
jones
thirstiness
letch
fancy
want
eagerness
appetence
love
enthusiasm
more ❯
“An overwhelming ache for support from others.”
Noun
▲
A superficial or transient feeling of liking or attraction
fancy
whim
inclination
attraction
desire
fantasy
fondness
partiality
preference
whimsy
wish
dream
impulse
like
liking
predilection
relish
taste
urge
vision
want
bent
caprice
craving
hankering
ideation
longing
love
penchant
pining
thirst
yearning
appetite
daydream
hunger
illusion
need
shine
thought
vagary
chimaeraUK
chimeraUS
contrivance
delusion
eccentricity
envisagement
idea
imagination
itch
kink
phantasm
phantasy
predisposition
quirk
conceit
envisioning
fantasm
figment
hallucination
humorUS
humourUK
imaginativeness
inventiveness
peculiarity
picture
reverie
thing
whimsey
yen
druthers
fabrication
mirage
romancing
eyes for
love affair
pipe dream
sweet tooth
pie in the sky
castle in the air
fool's paradise
favourUK
favorUS
weakness
affection
affinity
soft spot
use
leaning
enjoyment
proneness
tendency
appreciation
bias
attachment
palate
cup of tea
favoritismUS
enthusiasm
stomach
devotion
favouritismUK
susceptibility
appetency
prepossession
mind
bag
pleasure
tooth
interest
addiction
zest
gusto
understanding
velleity
sympathy
devices
habitude
turn
aptitude
bone
genius
type
inclining
eye
openness
weakness for
thing for
occupation
aptness
pick
pastime
position
hobby
avocation
what floats one's boat
turn-on
nature
custom
choice
more ❯
Noun
▲
A minor complaint
gripe
complaint
moan
grievance
grumble
beef
grouse
objection
protest
whinge
groan
whine
distress
grouch
kvetch
pain
aching
bellyaching
bleat
carp
cavil
cramps
fuss
griping
holler
lament
miserere
murmur
niggle
pang
pinching
plaint
quibble
squawk
wail
whimper
yammer
affliction
beefing
colic
grouching
stomachache
twinge
whingeing
disorder
illness
indisposition
infirmity
more ❯
Noun
▲
Something which ails one
ailment
complaint
disease
disorder
illness
infirmity
malady
sickness
bug
condition
affliction
lurgy
trouble
affection
ail
complication
distemper
distemperature
fever
ill
indisposition
infection
upset
dose
flu
malaise
syndrome
virus
weakness
mild sickness
unhealth
diseasedness
disturbance
what's going around
plight
dysfunction
bacterium
germ
predicament
irregularity
microorganism
bacillus
microbe
temper
queasiness
cachexia
unwellness
unhealthfulness
bad health
valetudinarianism
averseness
dislike
resentment
refusal
discomfort
poor health
relapse
ailing
confinement
prostration
convalescence
failing health
more ❯
Noun
▲
The act or sensation of throbbing
throb
pulse
beat
pulsation
beating
palpitation
pounding
pulsating
thump
vibration
thud
thumping
drumming
hammering
reverberation
throbbing
thrum
thrumming
thudding
judder
pit-a-pat
pitter-patter
quivering
resonance
pain
rhythm
pulsing
palpitating
oscillation
pound
more ❯
Verb
▲
To be, or cause to be, painful
hurt
smart
pound
sting
burn
pain
throb
twinge
gnaw
suffer
tingle
be painful
be sore
be in pain
be uncomfortable
play up
be tender
give someone gyp
give someone trouble
prickle
bite
cause pain
chafe
cause discomfort
prick
be irritated
cramp
annoy
blister
cause trouble
have gooseflesh
have goosebumps
have pins and needles
have a creeping sensation
have goose pimples
twitch
tickle
thrill
twitter
creep
be itchy
get excited
have goose bumps
feel tickled
more ❯
Verb
▲
Feel an intense desire for
crave
desire
covet
hunger for
long for
thirst for
yearn for
hanker
hanker after
hanker for
hunger
itch for
long
pine
pine after
pine for
want
wish
yearn
be desperate for
suspire for
yen for
be athirst for
be dying for
be unable to wait for
have a yen for
thirst
lust
itch
pant
salivate for
repine for
aspire to
die for
desiderate
hope for
set your heart on
pant after
jones for
burn for
require
envy
have your eye on
like
care for
be partial to
feel like
choose
relish
expect
await
anticipate
look forward to
await with enthusiasm
thirstily await
breathlessly anticipate
be interested in
be counting down the days to
enthusiastically await
enthusiastically anticipate
anticipate with pleasure
be eager to
await with anticipation
intently await
wait for
have eyes for
have an urge for
wish to
be gung ho about
fervently await
be keen on
be excited to
be impatient about
vigorously await
lick your lips over
really want
breathlessly await
thirstily anticipate
ardently await
vigorously anticipate
eagerly await
spiritedly anticipate
energetically await
actively anticipate
longingly anticipate
count the days until
spiritedly await
hungrily await
incline toward
cannot wait
hungrily anticipate
await with pleasure
anticipate with gusto
have an eye on
ardently anticipate
earnestly anticipate
be enthusiastic about
longingly await
intently anticipate
anticipate with enthusiasm
zealously anticipate
fervently anticipate
be hung up about
can't wait
expectantly await
could do with
impatiently await
energetically anticipate
eagerly anticipate
earnestly await
await with gusto
actively await
zealously await
anticipate with anticipation
be excited at
be enthused about
expectantly anticipate
impatiently anticipate
count the hours until
seek
give eyeteeth for
jones
feen
desire intensely
eat one's heart out
begrudge
prefer
have hots for
have eye on
favourUK
favorUS
love
select
take a shine to
welcome
lean towards
lean toward
elect
take to
feel inclined toward
be turned on to
suggest
approve of
go for
have a preference for
would rather
would sooner
opt for
rather
take a liking to
endorse
be inclined toward
crave for
have an inclination for
have one's heart set on
thirst after
have a fancy for
feel in need of
take a fancy to
have a need for
have a passion for
would give one's eyeteeth for
feel inclined to
feel up to
feel the need for
have the inclination for
feel a need for
more ❯
“Sometimes my heart ached for England, but I knew that if I ever returned there again, my life would not be the same.”
Verb
▲
To suffer pain
grieve
sorrow
agoniseUK
agonizeUS
mourn
suffer
anguish
hurt
lament
be sorrowful
bleed
be distressed
be miserable
be mournful
be sad
be in anguish
be in distress
be in pain
feel wretched
weep and wail
eat your heart out
go through the mill
weep
cry
wail
sob
carry on
keen
deplore
bewail
more ❯
“It must have been hard to keep smiling when his heart was aching.”
Verb
▲
To cause sudden intense pain in the bowels
gripe
annoy
bother
irritate
vex
aggravate
bug
chafe
eat
exasperate
frost
gall
get
grate
irk
itch
nark
nettle
peeve
persecute
pique
rasp
rile
ruffle
spite
hurt
pain
press
burn up
compress
cramp
hack off
pinch
put out
squeeze
disturb
dismay
beleaguer
oppress
ail
agonizeUS
concern
haunt
agoniseUK
alarm
torture
burden
stir up
unhinge
gnaw at
besiege
harrow
prod
frazzle
importune
sadden
freak out
stress
weird out
rack
keep on at
go on at
discomfort
undo
derail
hagride
lie heavy on
make anxious
keep after
urge
heckle
shock
shake
weigh down
bewilder
curse
excruciate
strain
fire up
anguish
puzzle
alarum
get on someone's nerves
get in someone's hair
craze
make uneasy
startle
dishearten
dun
frighten
work on
pother
cause offense
make your blood boil
pressurizeUS
nag at
spook
cause anxiety to
get someone's back up
get someone's goat
weigh heavily on
cut to the quick
solicit
petition
assail
nonplus
henpeck
incite
push
be offensive
demoralizeUS
pressuriseUK
sicken
disoblige
horrify
arouse
harp on at
preoccupy
attack
get up someone's nose
psych
demoraliseUK
make unhappy
infest
hurt someone's feelings
ruffle someone's feathers
rattle someone's cage
make someone's blood boil
get under someone's skin
prey on
cause suffering to
make someone scratch their head
put someone's back up
discourage
baffle
dispirit
entreat
blight
implore
beg
beseech
criticizeUS
abash
supplicate
break
daunt
surprise
slight
stimulate
repel
chill
nauseate
move
disappoint
curdle
disorient
enjoin
dumbfound
desolate
despair
humiliate
ask
tax
cavil
intrude
terrify
weary
empurple
stun
crush
take aback
demand
appeal
grill
hang over
peck at
insist on
possess
zing
indispose
bleed
ask for it
catch off balance
appalUK
criticiseUK
debilitate
disarrange
give offence to
make discontented
hit where one lives
muddle
get someone's dander up
make someone's hackles rise
try someone's patience
examine
umbrage
take by surprise
plead
flip out
overrun
appallUS
weigh on
psych out
knock sideways
make uncomfortable
raise hell
key up
turn on
cause to be at a stand
turn one off
make your hackles rise
put out of countenance
put somebody's nose out of joint
make you see red
stop someone in their tracks
knock for six
be a great weight on
make a scene
hurt somebody's feelings
push buttons
make blood boil
barrage
pressure
tick someone off
occupy
get up your nose
niggle at
cut
chase
lean on
scandalizeUS
push button
heat up
spur
tire
put pressure on
disorder
bristle
drive insane
discontent
disaffect
trigger
sweat
fear
press down on
cause disquiet to
mess
make fretful
be a nuisance to
stress out
haze
unman
buttonhole
boil
misplease
wing
revolt
cool
sound
cap
bedog
throw off
find fault with
macerate
noodge
despoil
foray
bullyrag
bring pressure to bear on
mess with
push someon's buttons
carp
roust
make one see red
question
quiz
tweak
ferment
push one's buttons
push someone's buttons
scandaliseUK
start
shame
lay waste
blow up
be a burden to
be like a red rag to a bull
disrespect
diss
get on someone's wick
make sore
lose one's temper
turn
incapacitate
flip
domineer
scold
cause concern to
cause discomfort to
make flip
ventilate
work someone up
bug up
jerk around
mistreat
encroach
obtrude
nit-pick
strap
martyr
snub
dis
play dirty
drive nuts
work into lather
set one off
set on
take a rise out of
put someone out
obsess
grizzle
slur
run up the wrong way
cause anguish to
drive you crazy
lay up
be on someone's back
be disagreeable
be an affront to
give offence
put down
tread on someone's toes
make miserable
do a number on
cut up
arouse anxiety in
make wretched
make it tough for
make fed up
rock the boat
shatter
demean
interfere with
have had enough
become bored
grate at
lose patience
drive you out of your mind
drive you off your head
drive you to distraction
make somebody's blood boil
drive you round the twist
drive somebody up the wall
make livid
drive out of mind
drive you round the bend
pick at
berate
devastate
test
unbalance
tear
get on someone's tits
be a thorn in someone's flesh
get someone's hackles up
get someone's wick
feel up
break in
touch up
barge in on
intrude on
dishonourUK
discredit
repulse
make self-conscious
make awkward
make ashamed
show up
own
butt in on
horn in on
rag
scratch
scout
dishonorUS
put in a spot
let down
throw into a tizzy
make a monkey of
put in a hole
catch one short
balkUS
be hurtful to
mourn
cause anguish
cause suffering
lambaste
cause sorrow
encompass
enclose
surround
sweat out
find fault
recur
baulkUK
put someone off
entangle
encircle
environ
be disagreeable to
push the buttons of
catch
put someone off their stride
foul up
upset apple cart
set someone back on their heels
give chase
scratch around
track down
yap at
rag on
start in on
ring
circle
jump on one's case
aggress
put the squeeze on
compass
fall upon
overcome
invade
girdle
give one the business
hem in
fall on
give the needle
pervade
materializeUS
manifest
walk
dwell
materialiseUK
rise
voodoo
reappear
hover
permeate
return
appear
inhabit
float
deject
turn inside out
be on one's tail
be on one's back
take out after
search high heaven
leave no stone unturned
beat the bushes
turn upside down
thumb nose at
come back to
stay with
come back
be ever present
controvert
brawl
scrap
row
argufy
quibble
squabble
bicker
altercate
wrangle
fight
quarrel
argue
dispute
spat
brabble
lie heavily on
amaze
astonish
drain
dash
mystify
prey on your mind
appeal to
fall out
dampen
call
dull
abase
drag
darken
damp
enervate
plead with
pray
impetrate
conjure
clamourUK
exhort
request
lobby
campaign
bemuse
stagger
knock the stuffing out of
harsh someone's mellow
give someone the blues
get down
make someone fed up
make despondent
make desolate
make your heart bleed
pour cold water on
cast a gloom upon
beat down
run down
make gloomy
bear down
make sad
reduce to tears
bring tears to your eyes
keep under
cast down
throw cold water on
daze
buffalo
stupefy
galvanizeUS
order
clamorUS
bay
charge
bid
prompt
sue
requisition
exact
live off
exploit
blackmail
plunder
take advantage of
depredate
consume
kill
raid
weigh
load
extort
feed on
fleece
seize
live on
devour
apply to
obsecrate
call on
flabbergast
breath down someone's neck
pose
fox
encourage
stipulate
quest
apply
insist
con
crave
persuade
invoke
plead to
sell
inspire
electrify
maze
befog
leave open-mouthed
wilder
strike dumb
bamboozle
befuddle
muddy
addle
fog
astound
set someone thinking
leave aghast
ask authoritatively
ask forcefully
enquireUK
inquireUS
make a claim
ask brusquely
drum
wake
awaken
exhilarate
waken
animate
knock out
bowl over
blow away
obfuscate
inspirit
instigate
get going
bestir
metagrobolize
fiddle
boggle the mind
jumble
misperceive
commingle
screw up
misidentify
knock the stuffing out of someone
be all Greek to
blend
mix
galvaniseUK
vivify
revive
innervate
enliven
foment
mount
magnify
enhance
spur on
fire the imagination of
intensify
heighten
whet
innerve
rally
fire the enthusiasm of
redouble
light a fire under
whip up
deepen
pep up
intensate
challenge
more ❯
Verb
▲
Listen to woes of another
commiserate
console
comfort
compassionate
condole
feel for
pity
sympathiseUK
sympathizeUS
compassion
condole with
empathiseUK
empathizeUS
feel
solace
sympathize with
be sympathetic to
empathize with
express sympathy for
grieve for
mourn for
offer condolences to
offer sympathy to
send condolences to
sorrow for
be moved by
feel pity for
feel sorry for
have mercy
offer condolences
share sorrow
show compassion
give solace to
grieve
lament for
open one's heart
more ❯
Verb
▲
Beat or sound with a strong, regular rhythm; pulsate steadily
throb
pulsate
pulse
beat
palpitate
pound
thump
vibrate
pitter-patter
reverberate
thud
drum
hammer
pit-a-pat
resonate
thrum
judder
quiver
quop
shake
flutter
pitpat
thrill
tingle
tremble
twitter
go pit-a-pat
shiver
pump
quake
more ❯
Verb
▲
To think deeply about something that makes one unhappy, angry, or worried
mope
brood
sulk
fret
pine
pout
idle
languish
moon
despair
grieve
grump
repine
be gloomy
be dejected
be despondent
be miserable
be sad
bleed
chafe
despond
grumble
lament
regret
sink
yearn
hang around
be apathetic
eat your heart out
lose heart
pine away
stew over
sweat over
waste time
have a long face
be down in the dumps
be in a funk
eat one's heart out
go about like a half-shut knife
be down in the mouth
wear a long face
more ❯
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