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Sentisection :: Sentisection (n.) Painful vivisection; -- opposed to callisection.

Crucifier :: Crucifier (n.) One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another to a painful trial.

Mitigate :: Mitigate (v. t.) To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief..

Fear :: Fear (n.) To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.

Distress :: Distress (n.) That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.

Distressing :: Distressing (a.) Causing distress; painful; unpleasant.

Interest :: Interest (n.) Excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern..

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg..

Scorch :: Scorch (v. t.) To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat..

Painful :: Painful (a.) Painstaking; careful; industrious.

Thirst :: Thirst (n.) To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink..

Hemorrhoids :: Hemorrhoids (n. pl.) Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods..

Sciatica :: Sciatica (n.) Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoining it. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic..

Toiler :: Toiler (n.) One who toils, or labors painfully..

Gasp :: Gasp (n.) The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath.

Strangury :: Strangury (n.) A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction..

Dolorous :: Dolorous (a.) Occasioning pain or grief; painful.

Twitch :: Twitch (n.) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation..

To :: To (prep.) In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation; as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind; duty

Painful :: Painful (a.) Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.

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