pang
Noun
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A sudden sharp feeling (synset 107510112)
"pangs of regret"; "she felt a stab of excitement"; "twinges of conscience"is a type of: feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional statessubtypes: guilt pang - pangs of feeling guilty
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A mental pain or distress (synset 114353167)
"a pang of conscience"same as: sting
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A sharp spasm of pain (synset 114353059)
subtypes:
- birth pangs, labor pains, labour pains - a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth
- afterpains - pains felt by a woman after her baby is born; associated with contractions of the uterus
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