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All smarting synonyms

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noun smarting

  • ache — If you ache or a part of your body aches, you feel a steady, fairly strong pain.
  • bite — If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.

adj smarting

  • aching — causing physical pain or distress: treatment for an aching back.
  • achy — If you feel achy, your body hurts.
  • burning — You use burning to describe something that is extremely hot.
  • hypersensitive — excessively sensitive: to be hypersensitive to criticism.
  • abscessed — a localized collection of pus in the tissues of the body, often accompanied by swelling and inflammation and frequently caused by bacteria.
  • anguished — Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.
  • painful — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
  • nagging — continually faultfinding, complaining, or petulant: a nagging parent.
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