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Owing :: Owing (P. p. & a.) Had or experienced as a consequence, result, issue, etc.; ascribable; -- with to; as, misfortunes are often owing to vices; his failure was owing to speculations..

Catastrophe :: Catastrophe (n.) An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune..

Support :: Support (v. t.) To endure without being overcome, exhausted, or changed in character; to sustain; as, to support pain, distress, or misfortunes..

Lose :: Lose (v. t.) To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle..

Portend :: Portend (v. t.) To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs..

Misfortune :: Misfortune (v. i.) To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail.

Grief :: Grief (a.) Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness..

Dejection :: Dejection (n.) Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy.

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc..

Lamentable :: Lamentable (a.) Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error..

Misery :: Misery (n.) Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.

Shield :: Shield (n.) To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid!.

Malevolent :: Malevolent (a.) Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune.

Ill :: Ill (n.) Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity..

Malice :: Malice (n.) Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil.

Bale :: Bale (n.) Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow.

Infortune :: Infortune (n.) Misfortune.

Brood :: Brood (v. i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes..

Unheal :: Unheal (n.) Misfortune; calamity; sickness.

Unsuccess :: Unsuccess (n.) Want of success; failure; misfortune.

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