mardi 6 mai 2014

Notes on usage: Painful

Sore - Raw - Inflamed - Excruciating - Burning - Itchy

 

These words all describe sth that causes you physical pain.

 

Painful causing you physical pain. Painful can describe a part of the body, illness, injury, treatment or death: Is your knee still painful? | A series of painful injections o a slow and painful death
Sore (of a part of the body) painful and often red, especially because of infection or because a muscle has been used too much: A sore throat. | Their feet were sore after hours of walking.
Raw (of a part of the body) red and painful, for example because of an infection or because the skin has been damaged: The skin on her feet had been rubbed raw.
Inflamed (of a part of the body) painful, red and hot because of an infection or injury: The wound had become inflamed.
Excruciating extremely painful. Excruciating can describe feelings, treatments or death but not parts of the body: An excruciating throat/back/knee.
Burning painful and giving a feeling of being very hot: She felt a burning sensation in her throat.
Itchy giving an uncomfortable feeling on your skin that makes you want to scratch; having this feeling: An itchy rash. | I feel itchy all over.

 

PATTERNS
*sore/inflamed/itchy eyes
*raw/inflamed/itchy skin
*a painful/an excruciating death
*a painful/burning sensation
*excruciating/burning pain

 

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Common Phrasal Verbs Irregular Verbs List
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Common Clichés Thematic list of Idioms
Common misspellings Phrasal Verbs Particles list
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