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

Heartrending :: Heartrending (a.) Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.

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..

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

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

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

Bitter :: Bitter (v. t.) Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant..

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink..

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

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

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..

Whine :: Whine (v. i.) To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely..

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..

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

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

Replevin :: Replevin (n.) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention..

Afflictive :: Afflictive (a.) Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

Roar :: Roar (v. i.) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger..

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

Distrain :: Distrain (v. i.) To levy a distress.

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