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[ noun ] the state of being tense and feeling pain

Used in print

(Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)

It ignores the sordid financial aspects ( quite conveniently , too , for his audience , who could indulge in moral indignation without visible , or even conscious , discomfort , their money from the transaction having been put_away long_ago in a good antiseptic brokerage ) .

(Joseph Chadwick, No Land Is Free....)

But he felt no physical discomfort .

(T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)

It was n't the roughness and crudity and discomfort of the trip that had frightened her .

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[ noun ] an uncomfortable feeling in some part of the body

Related terms

suffering chafing irritate

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