Definition of difficulty

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Difficulty (n.) Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology..

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Drag :: Drag (v. t.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged..
Lame :: Lame (superl.) Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle..
Snarl :: Snarl (n.) A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty..
Spell :: Spell (v. t.) To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible..
Solubility :: Solubility (n.) The quality, condition, or degree of being soluble or solvable; as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty..
Bolster :: Bolster (v. t.) To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up..
Succor :: Succor (v. t.) Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress..
Wade :: Wade (v. i.) Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book..
Scant :: Scant (adv.) In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
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..
Corner :: Corner (v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument..
Rub :: Rub (v. i.) To move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods, as huntsmen; to rub through the world..
Molybdenum :: Molybdenum (n.) A rare element of the chromium group, occurring in nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced obtained as a hard, silver-white, difficulty fusible metal. Symbol Mo. Atomic weight 95.9..
Infusibility :: Infusibility (n.) Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved; as, the infusibility of carbon..
Wheezy :: Wheezy (a.) Breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. Used also figuratively.
Strait :: Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits..
Molehill :: Molehill (n.) A little hillock of earth thrown up by moles working under ground; hence, a very small hill, or an insignificant obstacle or difficulty..
Bad Lands :: Bad lands () Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by ca–ons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands)..
Solvability :: Solvability (n.) The quality or state of being solvable; as, the solvability of a difficulty; the solvability of a problem..
Quandary :: Quandary (n.) A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.
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