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Dejected :: Dejected (a.) Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance..

Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor..

Severe :: Severe (superl.) Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme; as, severe pain, anguish, fortune; severe cold..

Lighten :: Lighten (v. t.) To make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate; as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief..

Afflicting :: Afflicting (a.) Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flicting*ly, adv..

Woful :: Woful (a.) Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want..

Headachy :: Headachy (a.) Afflicted with headache.

Scourger :: Scourger (n.) One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely.

Podagrical :: Podagrical (a.) Afflicted with gout.

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

Pain :: Pain (n.) To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him..

Wring :: Wring (v. t.) To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance..

Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To punish; to afflict; to smite.

Oversorrow :: Oversorrow (v. t.) To grieve or afflict to excess.

Panacea :: Panacea (n.) A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction..

Drearihood :: Drearihood (n.) Affliction; dreariness.

Affamish :: Affamish (v. t. & i.) To afflict with, or perish from, hunger..

Pressure :: Pressure (n.) Affliction; distress; grievance.

Solace :: Solace (n.) To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in affliction, solitude, or discomfort; to console; -- applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward..

Nyctalops :: Nyctalops (n.) One afflicted with nyctalopia.

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