Hardship and Torture

Hardship

Hardship noun - Something that is a cause for suffering or special effort especially in the attainment of a goal.

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Torture and hardship are semantically related in distress topic. In some cases you can use "Torture" instead a noun "Hardship".

Nearby Word: hard

Torture noun - A state of great suffering of body or mind.

Usage example: spent an afternoon in torture waiting to hear whether her brother had made it home safely

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Hardship and torture are semantically related in distress topic. Sometimes you can use "Hardship" instead a noun "Torture".

Nearby Words: tortured, torturous, torturing, torturer

emotional	emotional hardship	emotional torture
physical	physical hardship	physical torture
endless	endless hardship	endless torture
constant	constant hardship	constant torture
Other adjectives: extreme, intense, serious, cruel, daily.

Defrosting the Ice Queen: It takes weeks of hardship, toil and torture at the hands of the Russians until an escaped Jessie has sex with Pitt under a Cuban bridge.

Source: Literature / Dirk Pitt Adventures
Trauma Conga Line: From the moment she was born Laura has bounced from one hardship to the next: Torture, abuse, being forced to attack and kill those she cares about, losing her only surviving family to protect them.

Source: Comic Book / X-23

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