pangs
Sudden internal jabs
Pangs are sudden sharp pains or spasms, physical or emotional.
Hunger pangs grip the stomach.
Pangs of guilt or remorse strike the conscience.
The word almost always appears in the plural and typically with an of-phrase naming the cause: pangs of jealousy, the pangs of unrequited love.
Intense sorrow from loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- jealousyResentful desire for another's advantages
envy · longing · nostalgia · homesickness · yearning · loss · separation · loneliness
Moral self-reproach
- remorseGuilt for wrongdoing
- regretSorrow over past actions
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- self-reproachBlaming oneself for wrongdoing
moral · ethical · nagging · troubled · uneasy · qualms · scruples · contrition
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
jealousy · envy · longing · nostalgia · homesickness · yearning · loss · separation · loneliness · wistfulness
guilt
Moral self-reproach
self-reproach · moral · ethical · nagging · troubled · uneasy · qualms · scruples · contrition · repentance
twinge
Brief, sharp sensation
cramp · shooting · gnawing · sharp · sudden · acute · gripping · wrenching · piercing · clutching
starvation
Extreme nutritional deprivation
- famishedIntensely, painfully hungry
- ravenousExtremely hungry, insatiable
- growlingDeep threatening vocalization
gnawing · empty · hollow · appetite · fasting · starving · deprivation · craving · voracious · peckish
- hurtsaches, burns, cuts, wounds, injures
- sufferingagony, anguish, misery, pain, torment
- Intangible feelingsfeelings, emotions, sensations, moods, sentiments
- guiltguilty, guilt trip, guilty conscience, remorseful, contrition
- hunger pangsPainful emptiness craving food
- birth pangsContractions during delivery
- pangs of conscienceAcute feelings of guilt
- sharp pang