Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Mental or bodily distress.
- noun Something that disturbs one's comfort; an annoyance.
- transitive verb To make uncomfortable; distress.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To disturb the comfort or happiness of; make uncomfortable or uneasy; pain; grieve; sadden; deject.
- noun Absence of comfort or pleasure; uneasiness; disturbance of peace; pain; grief; sorrow; disquietude.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To discourage; to deject.
- transitive verb To destroy or disturb the comfort of; to deprive of quiet enjoyment; to make uneasy; to pain.
- noun obsolete Discouragement.
- noun Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Mental or bodily
distress . - noun Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.
- verb To cause
annoyance ordistress .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
- noun the state of being tense and feeling pain
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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But as usual, our discomfort is a relative things – we could be in Buffalo!
Fall Elegy 2006
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Brendan Donnelly is day-to-day with what he described as discomfort in his left side.
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The first two graphs of the memo, provided by MSNBC to The Huffington Post, express angst over the idea that the movement could mean "more than just short-term discomfort for Wall Street firms" and has "the potential to have very long-lasting political, policy and financial impacts on the companies in the center of the bullseye."
Lobbying Firm Memo To Advise Wall Street Clients On Occupy Movement The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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An outgrowth of this discomfort is that it has created many conservatives -- who want do such things as to restrict social funding to various early childhood policy programs -- and use the supposed narrowness of IQ differentials over time, (within the various out-groups measured), to bolster their argument.
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The first two graphs of the memo, provided by MSNBC to The Huffington Post, express angst over the idea that the movement could mean "more than just short-term discomfort for Wall Street firms" and has "the potential to have very long-lasting political, policy and financial impacts on the companies in the center of the bullseye."
Lobbying Firm Memo To Advise Wall Street Clients On Occupy Movement The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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But they really do work and 5 minutes of discomfort is better than limping around for 3 days or being so sore that you wake yourself up when you roll over in your sleep
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Doubtless there's truth in that, but it seems more likely that the discomfort is occasioned by West's implication that sexuality is the very foundation of Christianity.
Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West 2009
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Men are better at long-term discomfort and degradation, things like prison and jobs, than we are at extreme, shorter-term bouts of excruciating pain, things like swimming the 'fly for 28 miles, squeezing kids' heads through birth canals, and hangnails.
Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: Even Dolphins Don't Do So Many Dolphin Kicks Todd Hartley 2011
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But the discomfort is what keeps it rich and interesting.
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Some products aim to help with the short-term discomfort of CVS, but none have been tested in large rigorous trials.
Tired Eyes? A Look at 4 Remedies Laura Johannes 2011
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