Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
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Opposition; contrariety.
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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
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To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.
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To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be…
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To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.
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That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.
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of Hurt
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To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room.
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The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of t…
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Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
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The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property…
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To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
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To set up; to put upright.
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Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
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The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.
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The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.
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Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
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An engine for casting stones.
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Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
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of Wind
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To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.
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The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.
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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
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To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.
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of Suffer
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