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78 entries under verb topic. ×
| agonizing(adjective, painful, sickness, ache) | |
| tormenting(adjective, painful, sickness, ache) | |
| troubling(adjective, hard, severe, offensive) | |
| aching(adjective, painful, sickness, ache) | |
| hurting(adjective, painful, sickness, ache) | |
| racking(adjective, strong, violent, shocking) | |
| irritating(adjective, hard, severe, rough) | |
| throbbing(adjective, painful, sickness, ache) | |
| trying(adjective, hard, severe, tender) | |
| afflicting(pain, punishing, paining) | |
| anguishing(adjective, disturbing, punishing, paining) | |
| discomforting(adjective, hard, severe, offensive) | |
| stinging(adjective, tender, raw, painful) | |
| harassing(hard, severe, offensive, upsetting) | |
| smarting(adjective, hurt, tender, painful) | |
| torturing(adjective, shocking, upsetting, disturbing) | |
| paining | |
| wounding(adjective, awful, terrible, cruel) | |
| chafing | |
| cramping |
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