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Sufficed :: Suffering (a.) Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc..

Calamitous :: Calamitous (a.) Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy..

Afflictive :: Afflictive (a.) Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

Relentless :: Relentless (a.) Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.

Suffer :: Suffer (v. t.) To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind..

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

Trouble :: Trouble (v. t.) To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.

Cumber :: Cumber (v.) Trouble; embarrassment; distress.

Dolor :: Dolor (n.) Pain; grief; distress; anguish.

Distraint :: Distraint (n.) The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.

Suffering :: Suffering (n.) The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs..

Aggrandize :: Aggrandize (v. t.) To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress..

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..

Harrow :: Harrow (n.) To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex..

Bitterness :: Bitterness (n.) The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind..

Ruth :: Ruth (v.) That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight.

Pain :: Pain (n.) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.

Remorseless :: Remorseless (a.) Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless..

Comfortless :: Comfortless (a.) Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.

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