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  • 21desolate — 1. adjective 1) the desolate prairie Syn: bleak, stark, bare, dismal, grim; wild, inhospitable; deserted, uninhabited, godforsaken, abandoned, unpeopled, untenanted, empty, barren; unfrequented, unvisited …

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  • 22distress — dis·tress n [Anglo French destrece, literally, tightness, anguish, deprivation, from Old French, ultimately from Late Latin districtus severe, from past participle of distringere to hinder, punish see distrain] 1: seizure and detention of the… …

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  • 23Bloody Sunday (1920) — Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola) was a day of violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. In total, 31 people were killed – fourteen British, fourteen Irish civilians and three republican prisoners. The… …

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  • 24distress — I. n. 1. Affliction, calamity, disaster, misery, misfortune, adversity, hardship, trial, trouble, perplexity. 2. Anguish, agony, suffering, sorrow, grief. 3. Pain, anguish, agony, torture, gripe, griping. 4. Privation, destitution, poverty,… …

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  • 25distress — n 1. anguish, misery, Archaic. bale, dolor, grief, sorrow, Archaic. dole; sadness, woe, ruth, heartache, heartbreak; ache, hurt, pain, suffering; torture, torment, agony; bereavement, mourning; woefulness, wretchedness, heaviness of heart,… …

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  • 26Distress — Dis*tress , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distressing}.] [Cf. OF. destrecier. See {Distress}, n.] 1. To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable. [1913 Webster] We… …

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  • 27Distressed — Distress Dis*tress , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distressing}.] [Cf. OF. destrecier. See {Distress}, n.] 1. To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable. [1913… …

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  • 28Distressing — Distress Dis*tress , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distressing}.] [Cf. OF. destrecier. See {Distress}, n.] 1. To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable. [1913… …

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  • 29immiserate — im·mis·er·ate (ĭ mĭzʹə rāt ) tr.v. im·mis·er·at·ed, im·mis·er·at·ing, im·mis·er·ates To make miserable; impoverish.   [New Latin immiserāre, immiserāt (translation of German verelenden, to sink into misery : ver , causative pref. + Elend,… …

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  • 30anguish — I verb ache, aggrieve, agonize, desolate, disturb, excruciate, grieve, harry, make miserable, pain, prostrate, rack, suffer, torment, torture, trouble, writhe associated concepts: mental anguish, noneconomic loss, pain and suffering II index pain …

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