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Comfortless :: Comfortless (a.) Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.

Strait :: Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits..

Whine :: Whine (v. i.) To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely..

Painful :: Painful (a.) Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing..

Severe :: Severe (superl.) Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme; as, severe pain, anguish, fortune; severe cold..

Afflictive :: Afflictive (a.) Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

Woful :: Woful (a.) Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want..

Easiness :: Easiness (n.) The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.

Sufficed :: Suffering (a.) Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc..

Assist :: Assist (v. t.) To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor..

Clear :: Clear (v. i.) To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free..

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

Distressing :: Distressing (adv.) In a distressing manner.

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another..

Console :: Console (v. t.) To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.

Hungry :: Hungry (superl.) Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire..

Solace :: Solace (v. t.) Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief..

Grief :: Grief (a.) Cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance.

Strait-handed :: Straiten (v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances..

Thirsty :: Thirsty (n.) Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire..

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