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SIT ON THORNS

Specialty Definition: SIT ON THORNS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Sit on Thorns (To) or ~~~on Tenterhooks. On Tenterhooks. To be in a state of anxiety, fearful that something will go wrong. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms within Context: SIT ON THORNS

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Pain	Sit on thorns, be on pins and needles, wince, fret, chafe, worry oneself, be in a taking, fret and fume; take on, take to heart; cark.
Physical Pain	Verb: feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain. Noun: suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge, twitch, lancinate; writhe, wince, make a wry face; sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: SIT ON THORNS

Language		Translations for "SIT ON THORNS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		tűkön ül (to be on edge, to be on thorns, to kick one's heels, to sit on thorns, to squirm). (various references)

Pig Latin		itsay onay ornsthay

Romanian		sta ca pe ghimpi (be on thorns). (various references)

Turkish		tedirgin olmak (be on thorns, feel uneasy about smth., worry, worry at), diken üstünde oturmak. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: SIT ON THORNS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-i-n-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-t"
	-3 letters: hornists, hornitos, notornis, orthosis, risottos, tinhorns, torsions, tortonis.
	-4 letters: hornist, hornito, intorts, introns, nitroso, notions, orisons, risotto, ronions, sottish, stonish, thirsts, thorons, tinhorn, tonnish, torsion, tortoni, tritons, tsooris.
	-5 letters: hoists, honors, horsts, intort, intron, intros, ninths, nitons, nitros, norths, notion, onions, orison, rhinos, ronion, roosts, rosins, shirts, shoots, shorts, shotts, snoots, snorts, sooths.
	Words containing the letters "h-i-n-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-t"
	+3 letters: noteworthiness.
	+4 letters: ethnohistorians.
	+5 letters: noteworthinesses.
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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography

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