Intense feelings of suffering acute mental or physical pain Princeton's WordNet Rate these synonyms: 0.0 / 0 votesīadgering, harassment, worrying, overrefinement, torturing, agony, torture, anguish, bedevilment, curse, twisting, distortion, strainingīadgering, distortion, worrying, overrefinement, torturing, straining, harassment, torture, anguish, bedevilment, twisting, agony, curse Agony of body is that with which the system struggles anguish that by which it is crushed.Īche, agony, anguish, distress, pain, pang, paroxysm, suffering, throe, torture, twinge, wo(e)Ĭomfort, delight, ease, enjoyment, peace, rapture, relief, solace Agony and anguish express the utmost pain or suffering of body or mind. Torment and torture are intense and terrible sufferings. Paroxysm applies to an alternately recurring and receding pain, which comes as it were in waves the paroxysm is the rising of the wave. We speak of the pangs of hunger or of remorse. Ache is lingering pain, more or less severe pang, a pain short, sharp, intense, and perhaps repeated. Distress is too strong a word for little hurts, too feeble for the intensest suffering, but commonly applied to some continuous or prolonged trouble or need as, the distress of a shipwrecked crew, or of a destitute family. The prick of a needle causes pain, but we should scarcely speak of it as suffering. Suffering is one of the severer forms of pain. Pain is the most general term of this group, including all the others pain is a disturbing sensation from which nature revolts, resulting from some injurious external interference (as from a wound, a bruise, a harsh word, etc.), or from some lack of what one needs, craves, or cherishes (as, the pain of hunger or bereavement), or from some abnormal action of bodily or mental functions (as, the pains of disease, envy, or discontent).
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