ETYM Latin agonia, Greek agon, orig. a contest: cf. French agonie. Related to Agon.
1. A state of acute pain; SYN. suffering.
2. Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; SYN. torment, torture.

ETYM Old Eng. anguishe, anguise, angoise, French angoisse, from Latin angustia narrowness, difficulty, distress, from angustus narrow, difficult, from angere to press together. Related to Anger.
1. Extreme distress of body or mind.
2. Extreme mental distress; SYN. torment, torture.

ETYM Old Eng. destresse, distresse, Old Fren. destresse, destrece, French détresse, Old Fren. destrecier to distress, (assumed) Late Lat. districtiare, from Latin districtus, p. p. of distringere. Related to Distrain, Stress.
(Irregular plural: distresses).
1. A strong feeling of anxiety; SYN. worry, trouble.
2. Psychological suffering; SYN. hurt, suffering.
3. The seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; SYN. distraint. + prikaži više

ETYM Old Eng. dolor, dolur, dolour, French douleur, Latin dolor, from dolere. Related to Dole.
Painful grief; a poetic term; SYN. dolour.

Alternate (chiefly British) spelling for dolor.

ETYM Old Eng. peine, French peine, from Latin poena, penalty, punishment, torment, pain.
(Homonym: pane).
1. A bodily sensation of acute discomfort; SYN. painful sensation.
2. A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; SYN. hurting.
3. Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; SYN. painfulness.
4. A bothersome annoying person; SYN. pain in the neck, nuisance.
Sense that gives an awareness of harmful effects on or in the body. It may be triggered by stimuli such as trauma, inflammation, and heat. Pain is transmitted by specialized nerves and also has psychological components controlled by higher centers in the brain. Drugs that control pain are known as painkillers or analgesics.
A pain message to the brain travels along the sensory nerves as electrical impulses. When these reach the gap between one nerve and another, biochemistry governs whether this gap is bridged and may also either increase or decrease the attention the message receives or modify its intensity in either direction. The main type of pain transmitter is known simply as “substance p”, a neuropeptide concentrated in a certain area of the spinal cord. Substance P has been found in fish, and there is also evidence that the same substances that cause pain in humans (for example, bee venom) cause a similar reaction in insects and arachnids (for instance, spiders).
Since the sensation of pain is transmitted by separate nerves from that of fine touch, it is possible in diseases such as syringomyelia to have no sense of pain in a limb, yet maintain a normal sense of touch. Such a desensitized limb is at great risk of infection from unnoticed cuts and abrasions. + prikaži više

1. Feelings of mental or physical pain; SYN. hurt.
2. Misery resulting from affliction; SYN. woe.
Physical or mental pain, interpreted in different ways in different faiths. In Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, suffering arises as a direct result of the actions (karma) of this or a previous life. In Chinese religion it arises from an imbalance in yin and yang, the forces of the universe. For Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, there is a problem of how to relate a good, loving God with the seemingly inevitable suffering in the world. In Christianity and Judaism the world is seen as having been created good, but becoming subject to suffering by humanity's disobedience. Both look forward to an age when suffering will no longer exist. Islam sees suffering as a test sent by God. + prikaži više

ETYM Old Fren. torment, French tourment, from Latin tormentum an engine for hurling missiles, an instrument of torture, a rack, torture, from torquere to turn, to twist, hurl. Related to Turture.
1. Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.
2. That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.

ETYM French,fr.Latin tortura, from torquere, tortum, to twist, rack, torture; probably akin to Greek trepein to turn, German drechsein to turn on a lathe, and perhaps to Eng. queer. Related to Contort, Distort, Extort, Retort, Tart, Torch, Torment, Tortion, Tort, Trope.
1. The act of torturing someone; SYN. torturing.
2. Unbearable physical pain; SYN. torment. + prikaži više