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Teen

Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain.

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Immature 84% connected

Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.

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Immature 84% connected

Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.

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Young 84% connected

Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young…

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Young 84% connected

Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young…

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Juvenile 76% connected

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance.

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Punk 76% connected

Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

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Rocker 76% connected

One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.

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Adolescent 92% connected

Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stripling 92% connected

A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.

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Teenage 92% connected

The longer wood for making or mending fences.

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Ache verb · 78% connection

To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed.

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Affliction noun · 78% connection

The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.

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Afflictive adjective · 78% connection

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

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Agony noun · 78% connection

Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence,…

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Baleful adjective · 78% connection

Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad.

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Bemoan verb · 78% connection

To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.

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Break verb · 78% connection

To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.

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Condolence noun · 78% connection

Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.

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Crack verb · 78% connection

To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.

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Cross noun · 78% connection

Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.

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Deepen verb · 78% connection

To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow.

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Deplore verb · 78% connection

To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.

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Dole noun · 78% connection

grief; sorrow; lamentation.

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Doleful adjective · 78% connection

Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.

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Furnace noun · 78% connection

A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.

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Grame adjective · 78% connection

Sorrow; grief; misery.

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Griefful adjective · 78% connection

Full of grief or sorrow.

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Grieve verb · 78% connection

To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over.

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