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Woe

Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

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Miserableness 76% connected

The state or quality of being miserable.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Misery 76% connected

Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.

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Wretchedness 76% connected

The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery.

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Suffering 92% connected

of Suffer

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Woefulness 92% connected

Alt. of Wofulness

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Abandon noun · 77% connection

a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger"

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Abashment noun · 77% connection

feeling embarrassed due to modesty

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Aggravation noun · 78% connection

An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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Bale noun · 78% connection

Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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Baleful adjective · 78% connection

Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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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.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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Break verb · 78% connection

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

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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Condolence noun · 78% connection

Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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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.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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Cruel adjective · 78% connection

Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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Deepen verb · 78% connection

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

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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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.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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Dole noun · 78% connection

grief; sorrow; lamentation.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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Doleful adjective · 78% connection

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

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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Evil adjective · 78% connection

Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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Grame adjective · 78% connection

Sorrow; grief; misery.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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Griefful adjective · 78% connection

Full of grief or sorrow.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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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.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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Grievous adjective · 78% connection

Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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Heartbreak noun · 78% connection

Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grief, sorrow, misery, heavy, calamity.
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