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(n)
Emotional distress or pain, often caused by a loved one or their absence.
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Overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment.
The quality of being brokenhearted (describes a patient).
(uncountable) unhappiness, woe
A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.
The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death.
An act or instance of feeling or expressing grief.
Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
(chiefly Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
Alternative form of saad (“Arabic letter”). [The letter ص in the Arabic script.]
(v)
(ambitransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
(uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
Feeling or expressing sorrow over someone's death.
Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or mortification.
The quality of having a bitter taste.
A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
Extreme pain.
Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits
The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.
The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
(countable) A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint.
A dire or unfortunate situation.
An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
A distressing or dangerous situation.
(uncountable, formal) Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.
A lack of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.
A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
(countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
(uncountable) Bad luck.
Something or someone that has been ruined.
The state of being desolated or laid waste
The feeling of not being happy.
Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.
A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
(countable, usually in the plural) An expression of comfort, support, or sympathy offered to the family and friends of somebody who has died.
That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
Deep awareness of the suffering of others that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such states.
The act of weighing, of measuring the weight
Someone or something of importance.
The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.
(medicine) A pain or ache in the head.
(US, informal) A sorority (student organization).
A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers, to which personhood is attributed.
(countable, uncountable) An event where a ship sinks or runs aground.
Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
The act of lamenting.
(intransitive) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation. [(often) with of]
The characteristic of being doleful; sadness.
Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
(intransitive) To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
The condition of being heartsick
An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.
One who grieves.
The condition or state of being alone or having no companions.
A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
(adj)
having suffered the death of a loved one
The state of being bewildered.
The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
The quality or state of sorrow; sadness.
Violent uncontrolled anger.
The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
A surname.
Responsibility for wrongdoing.
The state of being helpless.
A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea.
A lack of hope; despair.
(literary) Very sad or distressed, sorely upset.
Anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one or one's group has been wronged or betrayed by others; indignation.