Chastening

  • 81easing — Synonyms and related words: abatement, abating, allaying, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, alleviative, analgesia, analgesic, anesthesia, anesthetic, anesthetizing, anodyne, appeasement, assuagement, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic,… …

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  • 82embarrassing — Synonyms and related words: awkward, baffling, bewildering, bothering, chastening, confounding, confusing, crushing, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting, distressing, disturbing, enigmatic, humbling, humiliating, humiliative,… …

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  • 83grueling — Synonyms and related words: Herculean, annoying, arduous, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, castigatory, chastening, chastising, corrective, crushing, devitalizing, disciplinary, draining, effortful, enervating, enfeebling,… …

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  • 84humiliating — Synonyms and related words: abusive, atrocious, awkward, backhand, backhanded, beneath one, calumnious, chastening, cheap, contumelious, crushing, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, disconcerting, disgraceful, disturbing, embarrassing,… …

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  • 85infliction — Synonyms and related words: affliction, bane, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, bother, bugbear, burden, burden of care, burdening, calamity, cankerworm of care, care, castigation, charging, chastening, chastisement, condign… …

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  • 86judgment — Synonyms and related words: acquittal, acumen, anathematizing, appraisal, appraisement, assessment, assumption, astuteness, attitude, belief, castigation, censure, chastening, chastisement, circumspection, circumspectness, climate of opinion,… …

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  • 87lessening — Synonyms and related words: abatement, abating, abridgment, allaying, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, assuagement, assuaging, attenuation, attrition, blunting, calming, chastening,… …

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  • 88lesson — Synonyms and related words: admonish, admonishment, admonition, alarm, assignment, call down, castigation, caution, caveat, chalk talk, chastening, chastisement, chide, chiding, class, correction, deterrent, deterrent example, discouragement,… …

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  • 89mitigating — Synonyms and related words: abating, allaying, alleviating, alleviative, altering, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, blunting, bounding, cathartic, chastening, cleansing, cushioning, dampening,… …

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  • 90nemesis — Synonyms and related words: affliction, bane, bugbear, burden, calamity, castigation, chastening, chastisement, condign punishment, correction, crushing burden, curse, death, defensibility, deserts, destruction, disciplinary measures, discipline …

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