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Pity :: Pity (n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.

Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town..

Bitterness :: Bitterness (n.) The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind..

Yaup :: Yaup (n.) A cry of distress, rage, or the like, as the cry of a sickly bird, or of a child in pain..

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

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

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

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

Outcry :: Outcry (n.) A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor..

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

Help :: Help (v. t.) To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison..

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

Starve :: Starve (v. t.) To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender..

Distressedness :: Distressedness (n.) A state of being distressed or greatly pained.

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

Squall :: Squall (v. i.) To cry out; to scream or cry violently, as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant squalled..

Relentless :: Relentless (a.) Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism..

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

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.

Matter :: Matter (n.) Inducing cause or occasion, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing; difficulty; trouble..

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