- Definitions|2
- Thesaurus|94
- Abbreviations|0
47 entries under noun topic. ×
| bitterness | |
| anguish(distress, shame, sorrow, degradation) | |
| bad conscience | |
| breast-beating | |
| confession | |
| heartache | |
| humiliation(distress, shame, sorrow, degradation) | |
| lamentation | |
| mortification | |
| pangs of conscience(expression, idiom, shame, sorrow) | |
| penance(distress, shame, sorrow, anguish) | |
| anxiety | |
| compassion(shame, sorrow, anguish, regret) | |
| dent | |
| embarrassment | |
| erosion | |
| excoriation | |
| friction | |
| guilty conscience | |
| incision |
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