v
Pronunciation spelling of humble. [(transitive, intransitive) To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of]
v
(transitive, medicine) To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate; to soothe.
v
(transitive) To exasperate; to irritate.
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(transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
v
(transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
v
(obsolete) To gratify, cause pleasure to.
v
To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.
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(transitive) To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
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(archaic, transitive) To sadden; to make sad.
n
Constant harassment, abuse, or attack or through the use of a blockade.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal) To stupefy with pain or grief.
n
Rare spelling of belabourer. [(rare) One who belabours.]
n
(rare) One who belabours.
v
(rare, transitive, figuratively) To tarnish or slander.
n
The condition of being bemired.
v
(transitive) To soothe or soften.
v
(transitive, archaic) To insult, to say negative things about.
v
(transitive) To tarnish something, especially someone's reputation.
adj
(rare, obsolete) Distracted.
n
(set phrase, possibly dated) One who endures, or who can endure, a great deal of pain, hardship, or other adversity.
n
(historical) A stage or place for torture.
v
(obsolete) To harass, torment.
adj
Dominated or plagued by conflict.
n
(obsolete) torture; torment
n
(figuratively) An ordeal, terrible, especially malicious treatment imposed upon someone.
v
(transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
v
To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay
n
A disastrous catastrophe.
n
(slang) Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy.
v
To excite into a passionate, angry, bestial state.
v
Alternative form of inveigh [(intransitive, with against or occasionally about, formerly also with on, at, upon) To complain loudly, to give voice to one's censure or criticism]
adj
(obsolete) exasperated; embittered.
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(transitive) To inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture.
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To cause, or to undergo exflagellation
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(transitive) To excite, to thrill.
adj
(obsolete) Very sore; ulcerated.
n
One who or which frustrates.
v
(intransitive, chiefly US, informal) To become sadistically torturous, especially due to vengeful spite.
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(transitive, archaic) To harm.
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(archaic) Pronunciation spelling of aggravate. [To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.]
n
Difficulties, generally; a rough time.
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(transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
n
(Christianity) Christ's ravaging or hostile incursion of Hell, conducted between his crucifixion and resurrection, in which he liberated the souls of the righteous held captive by Satan.
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(transitive, slang) to put a damper on (a mood).
n
Widespread devastation and destruction.
v
To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
n
(archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
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(US, slang) A state of severe physical or emotional injury.
n
Obsolete spelling of hurt [An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.]
n
A situation or place of intense pain and suffering.
adj
Having been treated badly.
adj
(obsolete) Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.
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(transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
n
Extreme suffering, affliction; torment; torture, especially without reason.
n
(obsolete) harm; injury; detriment
n
(law) One who makes or causes a nuisance.
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(intransitive) To feel or become offended; to take insult.
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A painful or trying experience.
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(transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
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(transitive) To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture.
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An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.
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To continually or inexorably harm someone; to continue to do harm; to needle over time; to weaken someone over time.
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To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).
v
(transitive) To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
n
A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
v
(transitive) To intimidate (someone) emotionally or using psychology (also psych out).
adj
Oppressed, dominated or plagued by.
v
(intransitive) To hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience.
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(transitive, archaic, originally law) To prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence.
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(transitive, intransitive, informal) To make stupider or promote stupidity.
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(intransitive) To undergo hardship.
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(transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
n
A severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die.
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To work hard; to drudge; to toil, to moil.
n
Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
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Alternative spelling of tormentor [One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.]
n
(obsolete) torment; pain
v
(transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).
adj
Characteristic of torture; torturous.
n
Obsolete form of toil. [Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.]
n
Any adversity; a trying period or event.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To sadden.
n
One who, or that which, troubles; a disturber.
v
(intransitive) To become ugly.
v
(transitive, nonstandard) To make ugly (sometimes with up).
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(transitive, by extension) To humiliate.
v
(Internet slang, intransitive) To make vague negative comments publicly; to make highly veiled complaints or insults.
n
A particular place of sorrow or suffering.
n
Any extremely arduous or painful experience requiring strength or courage to endure.
adj
Tending to make someone feel small; scornful in a mortifying way.
n
(especially in medicine) One who or that which worsens (internally), becomes worse, deteriorates in condition.
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