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| grievous |
causing emotional or physical suffering; painful. [1/3 definitions] |
| hard knocks |
difficult or painful experiences, disappointments, or instances of rough treatment. |
| harrowing |
deeply distressing or painful. |
| hemorrhoid |
an often painful mass of swollen veins in or at the anus; pile. [1/2 definitions] |
| horror |
an overpowering and painful feeling of fear, shock, dread, or revulsion. [1/5 definitions] |
| inflammation |
a localized reaction of tissue to illness or injury, marked by heat, redness, swelling, and painful sensitivity to pressure. [1/2 definitions] |
| intolerable |
too disagreeable, difficult, or painful to be endured; not tolerable. |
| itai-itai disease |
a painful degenerative bone disease contracted by ingesting water or food that has been polluted by industrial cadmium waste. |
| migraine |
an extremely painful, usu. recurring headache that is characteristically accompanied by vision disturbances and nausea. |
| milk leg |
a painful swelling in a woman's leg occurring after childbirth, caused by clotting or inflammation of the veins. |
| ordeal |
a painful, exhausting, or emotionally trying experience, esp. when regarded as a test of a person's endurance or character. [1/2 definitions] |
| photophobia |
an abnormal fear of or painful sensitivity to light, sometimes resulting from eye ailments. |
| priapism |
a pathological condition of continuous, often painful, erection of the penis, esp. as caused by disease. [1/2 definitions] |
| prick |
the painful sting of guilt, shame, sorrow, or the like. [1/9 definitions] |
| remorse |
a sincere, often painful sense of regret for past misdeeds. |
| Rolfing |
trademark for an often painful massage technique used to relieve emotional and physical stress. |
| scrub typhus |
an acute infectious disease of Asia that is transmitted by a mite larva and characterized by fever, rash, skin lesions, and painful swelling of the lymph glands. |
| shingles |
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) a painful viral skin disease that afflicts nerve tissue and causes eruptions of blisters. |
| shinsplints |
(used with a sing. verb) a painful condition in which the extensor muscles of the lower leg are strained, often from running or jogging on hard surfaces. |
| sore |
a painful or sensitive wound or bruise on the body, esp. one in which the skin is broken. [1/7 definitions] |
| sore throat |
painful inflammation of the throat, typically caused by an upper respiratory infection. |
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