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

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

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..

Pain :: Pain (n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart..

Refuge :: Refuge (n.) That which shelters or protects from danger, or from distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy..

Cry :: Cry (v. i.) To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child..

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

Calamity :: Calamity (n.) A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery.

Distraint :: Distraint (n.) The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.

Afflict :: Afflict (v. t.) To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment..

Tweague :: Tweague (n.) A pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress.

Carking :: Carking (a.) Distressing; worrying; perplexing; corroding; as, carking cares..

Anguish :: Anguish (n.) Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress..

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

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

Wring :: Wring (v. t.) Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture..

Endurance :: Endurance (n.) The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience..

Affliction :: Affliction (n.) The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief..

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

Forhall :: Forhall (v. t.) To harass; to torment; to distress.

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