Definition of difficulty

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Difficulty (n.) Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties..

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Corner :: Corner (v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument..
Orthopny :: Orthopny (n.) Specifically, a morbid condition in which respiration can be performed only in an erect posture; by extension, any difficulty of breathing..
Heavily :: Heavily (adv.) As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully..
Succor :: Succor (v. t.) To run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve; as, to succor a besieged city..
Easily :: Easily (adv.) With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen..
Hobble :: Hobble (n.) Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment.
Sore :: Sore (a.) Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
Cynanche :: Cynanche (n.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing..
Set :: Set (v. t.) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud..
Eluctation :: Eluctation (n.) A struggling out of any difficulty.
Unravel :: Unravel (v. t.) Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot..
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged..
Sopor :: Sopor (n.) Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty.
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..
Cornered :: Cornered (p. a.) In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.
Ado :: Ado (n.) Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles..
Danger :: Danger (n.) Difficulty; sparingness.
Doctor :: Doctor (n.) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine..
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..
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..
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