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

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..

Distressing :: Distressing (a.) Causing distress; painful; unpleasant.

Lampoon :: Lampoon (n.) A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress..

Sore :: Sore (superl.) Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity..

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

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..

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

Distress :: Distress (n.) To compel by pain or suffering.

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

Knight :: Knight (n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life..

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

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

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..

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

Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict..

Ruth :: Ruth (v.) That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight.

Disease :: Disease (v. t.) To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.

Entrap :: Entrap (v. t.) To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men..

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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