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Grievance :: Grievance (v. t.) Grieving; grief; affliction.

Nyctalops :: Nyctalops (n.) One afflicted with nyctalopia.

Mitigation :: Mitigation (n.) The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty..

Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict..

Afflicted :: Afflicted (imp. & p. p.) of Afflic.

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.

Scourge :: Scourge (n.) Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment..

Lighten :: Lighten (v. t.) To make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate; as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief..

Assay :: Assay (n.) Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.

Sorry :: Sorry (a.) Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling..

Buffeting :: Buffeting (n.) A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity..

Sorely :: Sorely (adv.) In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted..

Drearihood :: Drearihood (n.) Affliction; dreariness.

Dysuric :: Dysuric (a.) Pertaining to, or afflicted with, dysury..

Distress :: Distress (n.) To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.

Weighty :: Weighty (superl.) Rigorous; severe; afflictive.

Scourge :: Scourge (n.) To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction..

Smite :: Smite (v. t.) To afflict; to chasten; to punish.

Teenful :: Teenful (a.) Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted.

Afflicting :: Afflicting (a.) Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flicting*ly, adv..

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