panged

past tense of pang

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for panged
Verb
  • To see how much this moment pained Seattle and its players, look no further than MVP candidate Cal Raleigh, who was reduced to tears at the end of the game.
    George Ramsay, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Aggrieved and pained, Mary returns from the grave to exact revenge on anyone who steps inside her family home.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • If they were considered unimportant to the team’s chances of success, Zidane and Ancelotti did not worry too much if their feelings got hurt.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
  • This week's episode began with the announcement that Elaine Hendrix, star of the 1998 version of The Parent Trap, would be unable to compete in the competition that evening, after hurting her rib during rehearsals the same morning.
    Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While basic first aid can often ease the pain of a bee sting, according to the Mayo Clinic, those who are stung more than a dozen times can experience a more severe reaction, which includes nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever and lightheadedness.
    Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Considering that one cocktail could cost one hour of some employees’ wages, the removal of that free drink benefit stung even more, Quimby and Reber told Deadline.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Like the other eight couples who were killed, they were found shot and stabbed in their cars.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • As president of the United States, he was stabbed in the heart with a letter opener by a septuagenarian cuckold.
    Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Most of the excess labor cost was wrung out during the depths of the rolling recession, aligning wage expenses with profitability and setting up businesses to benefit disproportionately from any top-line improvement.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Brain wrung like a sponge every rinse cycle.
    Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The flood of people overwhelmed Bajo Chiquito, an impoverished community of 382 members of the Indigenous Emberá-Wounaan people.
    Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Food banks nationwide are overwhelmed by surging demand, with long lines and limited supplies.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • At some point, the glass negative cracked, and a thin black lightning strike of a line smote General Terry in the chest.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The men are seen as misogynistic, and the women are oppressed.
    Deena ElGenaidi, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • However, when your organization was founded less than 45 years after slavery was abolished, when Black women were still being forced to be wet nurses to the very children of those who oppressed them and lynching was a common occurrence below the Mason-Dixon Line?
    Essence, Essence, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Panged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panged. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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