pangnoun [ C ]
uk/pæŋ/us/pæŋ/a sudden sharp feeling, especially of painful emotion:
a pang of jealousy
We hadn't eaten since yesterday and the hunger pangs were getting harder to ignore.
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Pain & painful
- -racked
- achy
- agonizing
- cluster headache
- dodgy
- earache
- hell
- hurt
- masochism
- non-ulcer stomach pain
- painful
- painfully
- rack
- racking
- shooting pains
- suffering
- tender
- throb
- torment
- wince
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