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

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..

Misery :: Misery (n.) Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.

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

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..

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

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

Distress :: Distress (n.) That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.

Exigency :: Exigency (n.) The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency..

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

Needy :: Needy (superl.) Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.

Roar :: Roar (n.) The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like..

Struggle :: Struggle (v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.

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..

Torment :: Torment (v. t.) To pain; to distress; to afflict.

Cry :: Cry (v. i.) Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation..

Pain :: Pain (n.) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.

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

Help :: Help (v. t.) Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars..

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