The infliction or undergoing of physical or emotional pain, an instance of this; torment, torture; affliction, suffering. Obsolete.

Physical pain or suffering, esp. intense bodily pain; agony, torment.

Mortification of the flesh; an act of this. Also: torment, suffering.

A state of great suffering, bodily or mental; agony; severe pain felt or endured.

The state of being afflicted; misery, distress.

Torment, agony; extreme or severe pain or suffering, esp. when protracted or prolonged.

Tormenting feeling; severe suffering, pain, or vexation. Now rare.

Hardship, suffering (esp. physical); pain; distress. Obsolete.

= martyrdom, n. Cf. martyre, n. Obsolete.

More generally: any violent pain, spasm, or convulsion; esp. a mental or emotional spasm, an onrush or outburst of feeling, a paroxysm.

Torment; extreme suffering; slaughter (frequently in to make martyre). Cf. martyrdom, n. 2 3.

Severity of pain; excessive suffering. Obsolete.

Something which causes acute physical or mental suffering. Also: the result of this; intense pain or anguish.

Pain, pang, torment.

Urgent distress, anguish; a pang.

Extreme bodily suffering, often such as to produce writhing or throes of the body; severe pain. Also: an instance of this. Also figurative and in…

Acute physical pain; an instance of this. Obsolete. rare.

A sudden sharp spasm of pain which grips the body or a part of it; a shooting pain. In early use frequently with reference to pains of death or…

Sharp or severe pain.

Torture, torment.

= affliction, n.

Severe or excruciating pain or suffering (of body or mind); anguish, agony, torment; the infliction of such.

Emotional pain, esp. as caused by remorse, conscience, or sorrow; an instance of this, a pang. Now frequently a pinch of conscience.

Anguish, torment, suffering; an instance of this.

Torment, torture. Cf. discruciation, n.

The action of causing or the state of suffering extreme pain; an instance of this.

With reference to a natural force, disease, etc.: keenness, fierceness; intense painfulness; an instance of this. Obsolete.

The state of being afflicted; distress.

Intensity of grief or distress; hurtful or wounding quality; poignancy. Now rare.

Extreme pain.

= perialgia, n.

Intense pain. Cf. racking, adj.2 2. rare.