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Woful :: Woful (a.) Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.

Affliction :: Affliction (n.) The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief..

Yaup :: Yaup (n.) A cry of distress, rage, or the like, as the cry of a sickly bird, or of a child in pain..

Refuge :: Refuge (n.) Shelter or protection from danger or distress.

Supplicator :: Supplication (n.) A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods..

Dictator :: Dictator (n.) One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power..

Distress :: Distress (n.) To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.

Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict..

Distressing :: Distressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distres.

Howl :: Howl (n.) A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.

Distressed :: Distressed (imp. & p. p.) of Distres.

Distress :: Distress (n.) To compel by pain or suffering.

Distressful :: Distressful (a.) Full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress; as, a distressful situation..

Famish :: Famish (v. t.) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger..

Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..

Moan :: Moan (v. t.) To afflict; to distress.

Anxiety :: Anxiety (n.) A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium..

Howl :: Howl (v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.

Anguish :: Anguish (v. t.) To distress with extreme pain or grief.

Darkness :: Darkness (n.) A state of distress or trouble.

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