- 1. n. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. Source: opted
- 2. n. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. Source: opted
- 3. n. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. Source: opted
- 4. n. A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction. Source: opted
- 5. n. uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety) Source: wordnet
- 6. n. a mild state of nausea Source: wordnet
- 7. 1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. [Obs.] thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve [dead]. Chaucer. 2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms of heartsick agony." Milton. 3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. For who, without a qualm, hath ever looked On holy garbage, though by Homer cooked Roscommon. 4. A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction. Dryden. Source: webster
- 8. n:100 n uneasiness about the fitness of an action n a mild state of nausea Source: ecdict
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