quälen — meaning in English

English meaning

• agonize verb To suffer great pain or distress.
• anguish noun Severe mental or physical suffering, often caused by grief, loss, or distress.
• distress noun Serious pain, suffering, or worry, especially of an urgent kind.
• excruciate verb To cause someone severe physical pain or great mental suffering.
• harass verb To repeatedly trouble, pester, or intimidate someone, especially in a way that is unwanted or illegal.
• harrow noun A heavy farming tool with rows of spikes or discs, dragged over plowed soil to break it up.
• hurt verb To cause physical pain or injury.
• peeve noun A small thing that annoys or irritates you.
• pine noun An evergreen coniferous tree with needle-like leaves, or the wood it produces.
• slog noun A long, tiring effort or period of hard, tedious work.
• toil noun Hard, exhausting work.
• torment noun Severe physical or mental suffering.
• vex verb To annoy or irritate someone.

Senses

quälen is used for these senses in English:

• agonize (intransitive) To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
• anguish (transitive) To cause to suffer pain.
• distress To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
• excruciate (transitive) To inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture.
• harass To put excessive burdens upon (someone); to subject (someone) to anxieties.
• harrow (transitive) To traumatize or disturb; to torment, distress or vex.
• hurt (transitive, intransitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• peeve (colloquial) To annoy; vex.

agonize — full definition

1. verb To suffer great pain or distress.
2. verb To struggle hard, physically or mentally, to achieve something.
3. verb To cause someone great pain or distress.
4. verb (biology) To act on a receptor in the body and produce a response.

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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