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karsia — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • agonize verb To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
  • anguish noun Severe mental or physical suffering, often caused by grief, loss, or distress.
  • bear noun A large, heavily built mammal with thick fur, found across much of the world, ranging from mostly plant-eating to fully carnivorous species.
  • endure verb To keep going through something difficult; to survive hardship.
  • have verb To own or possess something.
  • hit verb To strike someone or something, often forcefully.
  • limb noun An arm, leg, or wing — a major projecting part of a body used for movement.
  • Pollard noun A tree that has been pruned back hard to the trunk so it grows a dense crown of new shoots.
  • prune noun A dried plum.
  • suffer verb To experience pain, hardship, or distress.
  • take verb To reach out and get hold of something, or to remove or carry it away.
  • trash noun Discarded material; garbage or rubbish.
  • whittle verb To shape a piece of wood by slicing off small slivers with a knife.

Senses

karsia is used for these senses in English:

  • agonize (intransitive) To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
  • anguish (intransitive) To suffer pain.
  • bear (transitive) To display (a particular heraldic device) on a shield or coat of arms; to be entitled to wear or use (a heraldic device) as a coat of arms. [1400]
  • delimb (transitive) To cut the limbs from.
  • eat one's heart out (idiomatic) To feel overwhelming sorrow, jealousy, or longing; to grieve.
  • endure To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
  • go through the mill (idiomatic) To experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.
  • have (transitive) To be afflicted with, suffer from.

agonize — full definition

  1. verb To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
  2. verb To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately, whether mentally or physically.
  3. verb To cause agony or anguish in someone.
  4. verb To act as an agonist upon; to combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction.

anguish — full definition

  1. noun Severe mental or physical suffering, often caused by grief, loss, or distress.
  2. verb To suffer or cause severe mental distress.

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