All hydra synonyms

noun hydra

• annoyance — Annoyance is the feeling that you get when someone makes you feel fairly angry or impatient.
• disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
• scourge — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
• bane — The bane of someone or the bane of someone's life is something that frequently makes them feel unhappy or annoyed.
• calamity — A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
• burden — If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work.
• jinx — a person, thing, or influence supposed to bring bad luck.
• invasion — an act or instance of invading or entering as an enemy, especially by an army.
• contagion — Contagion is the spreading of a particular disease by someone touching another person who is already affected by the disease.
• pandemic — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
• curse — If you curse, you use rude or offensive language, usually because you are angry about something.
• infection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
• outbreak — a sudden breaking out or occurrence; eruption: the outbreak of war.
• influenza — Pathology. an acute, commonly epidemic disease, occurring in several forms, caused by numerous rapidly mutating viral strains and characterized by respiratory symptoms and general prostration. Compare flu.
• infestation — the act of infesting; state of being infested.
• blight — You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
• pest — a city in and the capital of Hungary, in the central part, on the Danube River: formed 1873 from two cities on the W bank of the Danube (Buda and Obuda) and one on the E bank (Pest)
• tumor — a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
• pestilence — a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
• cancer — Cancer is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a crab. People who are born approximately between the 21st of June and the 22nd of July come under this sign.
• ordeal — any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
• cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
• torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
• voodoo — Also, vodun. a polytheistic religion practiced chiefly by West Indians, deriving principally from African cult worship and containing elements borrowed from the Catholic religion.
• tribulation — grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• vexation — the act of vexing.
• ravage — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
• rash — acting or tending to act too hastily or without due consideration.
• pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• irritant — tending to cause irritation; irritating.
• botheration — bother
• trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
• aggravation — the act of aggravating, or making worse, or the condition of being aggravated
• nuisance — an obnoxious or annoying person, thing, condition, practice, etc.: a monthly meeting that was more nuisance than pleasure.
• blast — A blast is a big explosion, especially one caused by a bomb.
• problem — any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
• coral — Coral is a hard substance formed from the bones of very small sea animals. It is often used to make jewellery.
• coelenterate — any invertebrate of the phylum Cnidaria (formerly Coelenterata), having a saclike body with a single opening (mouth), which occurs in polyp and medusa forms. Coelenterates include the hydra, jellyfishes, sea anemones, and corals
• anemone — An anemone is a garden plant with red, purple, or white flowers.
• hydroid — noting or pertaining to that form of hydrozoan that is asexual and grows into branching colonies by budding.
• basilisk — (in classical legend) a serpent that could kill by its breath or glance
• tarragon — an Old World plant, Artemisia dracunculus, having aromatic leaves used for seasoning.
• wyvern — a two-legged winged dragon having the hinder part of a serpent with a barbed tail.
• besetment — the state or condition of being beset
• loch ness monster — a large aquatic animal resembling a serpent or a plesiosaurlike reptile, reported to have been seen in the waters of Loch Ness, Scotland, but not proved to exist.
• giant squid — any squid of the genus Architeuthis, inhabiting deep ocean bottoms and sometimes attaining an arm span of 65 feet (20 meters) or more.