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Gripe :: Gripe (n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty..

Namation :: Namation (n.) A distraining or levying of a distress; an impounding.

Tribulation :: Tribulation (n.) That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction..

Maistress :: Maistress (n.) Mistress.

Passion :: Passion (n.) A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross..

Yearn :: Yearn (v. i.) To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.

Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To harm, afflict, or distress..

Press :: Press (v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger..

Distress :: Distress (n.) To seize for debt; to distrain.

Struggle :: Struggle (n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.

Lampoon :: Lampoon (n.) A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress..

Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..

Mrs. :: Mrs. () The customary abbreviation of Mistress when used as a title of courtesy, in writing and printing..

Mistress :: Mistress (v. i.) To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

#NAME? :: -ess () A suffix used to form feminine nouns; as, actress, deaconess, songstress..

Stress :: Stress (n.) Distress.

Empress :: Empress (n.) A sovereign mistress.

Arsis :: Arsis (n.) That part of a foot where the ictus is put, or which is distinguished from the rest (known as the thesis) of the foot by a greater stress of voice..

Imminence :: Imminence (n.) The condition or quality of being imminent; a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress..

Ictus :: Ictus (n.) The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis.

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