| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A state of physical or mental suffering: affliction, agony, anguish, distress, hurt, misery, pain, torment, woe, wound, wretchedness. See HAPPY. 2. Excruciating punishment: hell, living hell, persecution, torment. Idioms: tortures of the damned. See REWARD. | | VERB: | 1. To bring great harm or suffering to: afflict, agonize, anguish, curse, excruciate, plague, rack, scourge, smite, strike, torment. See ATTACK, HELP. 2. To subject (another) to extreme physical cruelty, as in punishing: crucify, rack, torment. Idioms: put on the rack (or wheel) . See PAIN, REWARD.
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