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Tweak :: Tweak (n.) Trouble; distress; tweag.

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

Affliction :: Affliction (n.) The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief..

Cumber :: Cumber (v.) Trouble; embarrassment; distress.

Dictator :: Dictator (n.) One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power..

Stress :: Stress (v. t.) To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.

Familiarize :: Familiarize (v. t.) To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress..

Tenesmus :: Tenesmus (n.) An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum..

Enlargement :: Enlargement (n.) A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty..

Commiseration :: Commiseration (n.) The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion..

Cardialgy :: Cardialgy (n.) A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion..

Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) Very trying to the feelings; piercing; keen; severe; painful; distressing; as, sharp pain, weather; a sharp and frosty air..

Labor :: Labor (n.) Any pang or distress.

Supplicator :: Supplication (n.) A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods..

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

Distress :: Distress (n.) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.

Severity :: Severity (n.) The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter..

Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress..

Succor :: Succor (v. t.) Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress..

Wretched :: Wretched (a.) Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting..

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