Concept cluster: Negative qualities > Emotional pain or distress
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full of aches; aching
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Characterised or marked by aching; painful
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In an aching manner; sorely.
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Suffering from aches, sore.
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Emotionally moved; touched.
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Under a burden of affliction.
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An affliction.
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In a way that causes affliction.
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A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
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That causes physical or mental pain.
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In an afraid manner.
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(obsolete) aggravating
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Having become more severe, dangerous or worse than usual before.
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In an aggravated manner.
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In an aggravating manner.
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In an agitated manner.
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Characterized by agony.
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Feeling or undergoing agony; agonized.
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Alternative form of agonizing [The act of one who agonizes.]
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Alternative spelling of agonizingly [In an agonizing manner; in a way that causes agony.]
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In an agonized manner
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In an agonizing manner; in a way that causes agony.
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(rare) Possessing or filled with agony.
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(biblical) The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
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Afflicted with ague.
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(now rare) In an aguish manner; as though suffering from ague.
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(obsolete) Painful; troublesome.
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To an extent that causes alarm.
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(obsolete) Affliction or trouble.
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Fraught with angst.
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Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
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In an anguished manner.
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Full of anguish.
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(obsolete) With anguish; anguishedly.
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anguish
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(obsolete) Full of anguish.
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Obsolete form of anguished. [Feeling anguish; experiencing extreme discomfort or discontent.]
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Capable of being annoyed.
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In an appalling manner.
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In a backbreaking manner.
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In a baffling or puzzling manner.
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(obsolete) Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.
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In a bemoaning manner.
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having suffered the death of a loved one
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in a bewailing manner
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Expressing contrasting emotions of pain and pleasure.
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in a bloodcurdling manner
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In a bothersome way.
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A feeling of grief or loss, especially after a failed romantic relationship.
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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy triggered by emotional stress, such as the death of a loved one
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Grieved and disappointed, especially with the loss of a beloved person or thing, such as the repudiation of a romantic relationship.
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In a brokenhearted manner.
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Afflicted with calenture.
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(obsolete) Sorrowfully.
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Feeling chagrin (at something); vexed; fretful.
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Arousing strong emotion.
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In a chilling manner.
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An angry or despairing intensifier.
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(of a comment, etc.) Penetrating and relatable, to the point of causing discomfort.
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In a manner that causes concern; worryingly.
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In a condoling manner.
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In a confounding way.
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Dismayed.
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So as to cramp or confine.
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In a crestfallen manner.
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Causing a severe and insurmountable problem; detrimental.
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Devastatingly disheartening.
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In a daunted way.
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In a daunting manner.
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At great expense.
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lamentably
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In a depressed manner.
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In a depressing manner.
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(obsolete) Sorrowfully; grievously.
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In a despairful manner.
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In a despairing manner.
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In a despiteous manner.
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In a devastating manner.
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(figuratively) Suffering from mental anguish.
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In a direful manner.
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In a dire manner
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In a cheerless, dreary manner; in a manner which suggests that one is beyond consolation.
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In a disheartened manner, dispiritedly.
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In a dismal manner.
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In a manner that causes dismay.
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In a distraught manner.
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in a distressed manner
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In a distressful way; showing distress
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In a distressing manner; so as to cause distress.
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In a disturbing manner.
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Obsolete spelling of doleful [Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.]
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In a doleful manner
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(archaic) Sad, sorrowful.
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(obsolete) Producing pain.
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Causing grief or pain.
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Grievous and sorrowful.
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(music) plaintively; pathetically
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In a dolorous manner.
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(chiefly uncountable, literary) Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow.
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Obsolete form of dolorous. [Solemnly or ponderously sad.]
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Rare spelling of dolorously. [In a dolorous manner.]
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(obsolete) sorrow; dole
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In a doomful manner.
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In a downcast manner.
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In a downhearted manner
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In a dreadful manner.
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With dread.
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(obsolete) sorrow
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(regional, obsolete) Sorrowful, disturbed.
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In a drudging manner; laboriously.
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In a dumbfounding manner.
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Dire; characterized by human suffering or misery.
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(obsolete) sorrow
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Distress or sorrow.
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elegiac; expressing sorrow.
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(obsolete) Melancholy, miserable, plaintive.
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In an embarrassed manner.
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In an embarrassing manner.
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So as to embitter.
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Hurt, grieved, pained.
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(idiomatic) Something so distressing that it causes one to lose hope and faith.
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In an enraging way.
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In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
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In an exasperated manner.
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(archaic) Liable to torment.
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In a very intense or extreme manner.
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Excruciating pain.
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In a fearsome manner, or to a fearsome extent
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(Tyneside, Cumbria) A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.
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in a flabbergasted manner.
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In a forlorn manner.
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In a fretful manner.
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With fretting behaviour.
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Very, extremely.
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In a frustrated manner.
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In a frustrating manner; in a manner that causes frustration.
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Intensely, as with embarrassment.
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(uncountable, obsolete) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
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In a godawful manner.
n
A grievance complained of.
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(dated) Very serious; full of weight, meaning; grievous.
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Obsolete spelling of grievous [Causing grief, pain, or sorrow.]
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(nonstandard outside dialects) Alternative spelling of grievous [Causing grief, pain, or sorrow.]
n
Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
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Very sad.
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Very sad; grief-stricken.
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Obsolete spelling of grief [Suffering, hardship.]
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(archaic) Expressing or full of grief; painful.
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Marked by grief; grievous
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(countable) Something which causes grief.
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One who is the object of a formal grievance.
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Obsolete form of grievance. [(countable) Something which causes grief.]
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(literary) Very sad or distressed, sorely upset.
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Marked by grief or grieving; grievous
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In a grieving manner.
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(nonstandard outside dialects) Alternative form of grievous [Causing grief, pain, or sorrow.]
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In a grievous manner, severely.
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(obsolete) agonizing; sad
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Obsolete form of groanful. [(obsolete) agonizing; sad]
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difficult to tolerate
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Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching [sickening]
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tormented, harassed or worried
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in a hair-raising manner
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In a harassed manner.
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Causing pain or distress.
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In a way or to an extent that is harrowing
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In a manner causing headache.
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(idiomatic) A heart (or by extension, person) in a very fragile romantic state, one that is easily made broken-hearted.
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(idiomatic) That causes extreme sorrow or grief.
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In a heart-breaking manner.
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Alternative form of heartrending [That causes great grief, anguish or distress.]
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In a heart-rending manner.
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(idiomatic) That causes shatter of a heart; very depressing.
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Synonym of heart-rending
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In a heart-stopping way.
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Pronunciation spelling of heart-touching. [Emotionally moving.]
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Emotionally moving.
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Alternative form of heartwrenching [Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.]
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Alternative form of heartwrenchingly
n
Very sincere and difficult emotional problems or stress.
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So as to cause heartache.
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Causing, or afflicted with, heartache.
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(figuratively) The condition of heartbreak resulting from a failed romance.
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An epithet of the professional wrestler Shawn Michaels.
n
Something that causes sorrow, grief or extreme disappointment.
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Pronunciation spelling of heartbreaking.
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In a heartbreaking manner
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(dialect or nonstandard) heartbroken
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Suffering from grief, especially after a failed romance.
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In a heartbroken manner.
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heartache; sorrow
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In a heartrending manner.
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That shatters a heart; very depressing.
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Very despondent or sorrowful.
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Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
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In a heartwrenching manner.
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(figuratively) A strong feeling of sadness or misery
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(idiomatic) sad, melancholic.
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In a heavy-hearted manner; sadly, morosely.
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In a homesick way.
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In a horrified manner.
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In a horrifying manner
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In a humbling way.
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Pained.
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In a hurtful manner.
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That hurts; so as to cause pain.
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Characterised or marked by hurt; causing injury or pain
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in an ignominious manner
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(chiefly US and Canada, idiomatic) Urgently; desperately; to an extreme degree.
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In an indignant manner.
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In an infuriating manner.
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Causing injury.
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Marked by irritation or annoyance; disagreeable; troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition
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In an irritated manner.
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In a jeopardous manner.
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Distressing, uncomfortable.
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In a manner that lacerates.
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(archaic) lamentable
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In a lachrymose manner.
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(music) Sadly, unhappily, grievingly.
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Alternative form of lacrimoso [(music) Sadly, unhappily, grievingly.]
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Regrettably. In a manner deserving or inspiring lamentation.
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In a way that is lamented.
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In an lamenting manner.
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Sadly missed due to death
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In a leery manner.
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In a lovesick manner.
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(archaic) mournful
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In a lugubrious manner.
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(archaic) melancholy, mournfulness
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In a maddening manner.
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In a maimed manner.
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In a maudlin fashion.
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Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
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In a melancholy manner.
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(obsolete) melancholy
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In a melancholious manner.
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Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
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(archaic) Timid, fearful, overly cautious.
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In a mirthless manner; sadly.
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In a miserable manner
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In a morbid manner, or to a morbid degree.
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In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.
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In a mourning manner; grievingly.
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Characterised by mourning; mournful
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In a moved manner; affected emotionally.
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Causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance.
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In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.
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In a noiseful manner.
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(colloquial) Painful, hurtful; that is expressed by the word ouch.
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Pain-causing; deliberately painful.
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In pain, especially in an emotional sense.
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In a pained manner.
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Archaic spelling of painful. [Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.]
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In a painful manner; as if in pain.
n
Something that causes pain.
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Alternative form of pain-making [Pain-causing; deliberately painful.]
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Indicating or marked by pain; painful
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(poetic, rare) A cry or feeling of pain and distress.
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(rare, chiefly philosophy) Relating to, having, showing or causing pain.
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(often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.
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(rare, chiefly poetic) Full of pangs; sorrowful, anguishing.
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In a panicked manner.
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(rare) With panic.
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Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos.
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sorrow; grief; mourning or sadness
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In a perilous manner.
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In a manner that perturbs.
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(figuratively) Causing irritation or annoyance.
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(UK, regional, archaic) A miserable, melancholy man or boy.
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In a phobic manner.
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While pining; sorrowfully.
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In a piteous manner; pathetically; plaintively.
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In a pitiful manner.
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In a pitying manner.
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In a plaintive manner.
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Indicating plight; dire; grim; grievous.
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Evoking strong mental sensation, to the point of distress; emotionally moving.
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(UK) Synonym of agony column
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(chiefly in combination) Having (a specified form of) problems
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Serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating.
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annoying; irritating
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(figuratively) Debilitating, harsh.
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In a puzzled manner; confusedly.
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Afflicted with quinsy.
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So as to cause suffering.
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An essential mental state; the dominant emotional theme of a work.
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(archaic) Synonym of rashly (“in a rash manner; hastily or without due consideration”)
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Sorrowful about what has been lost or done.
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In a rueful manner; causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow.
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rueful
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In a rushed manner; hurriedly, with haste.
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Sorrowfully, ruefully.
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Sadly; unfortunately.
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Causing feelings of sadness.
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So as to cause sadness.
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(rare, poetic) Full of sadness; sorrowful.
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In a particularly horrible or brutal manner, as painfully as possible.
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In a sad manner; sorrowfully.
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In a scary manner.
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In a manner that scares; frighteningly.
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A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
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In a shamefaced manner.
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In a shattering manner
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To a shocking degree.
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Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
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Easily moved to sorrow or pity.
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In an anxious or distressed way.
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Dire; distressing.
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In a sore or desperate manner.
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In a sorry manner; poorly.
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Filled with sorrow or sorrows.
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In a sorrowful manner; with sorrow and regret.
n
The act of feeling sorrow.
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While sorrowing; sorrowfully, woefully.
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(poetic, archaic) with sorrow, full of sorrow
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Marked by sorrow; sad; dreary; sorrowful
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(obsolete) Sorrowful.
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(rare) sorrowful
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(obsolete) Filled with care; anxious.
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(idiomatic) Scary, exciting or exhilarating.
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In a startled manner.
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In a startling manner; surprisingly; shockingly.
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In a strained manner.
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In a manner that strangles.
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In a manner which involves clutching at straws
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In a stressful way.
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In a stricken manner.
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In a struggling way.
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With suffering.
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Afflicted with sunstroke.
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Afflicted with sunstroke.
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In a suspenseful manner.
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(Caribbean) melancholy, or a painful feeling of unrequited love
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In a tearful manner.
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In a teary manner.
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(informal) Emotionally charged so as to induce sorrow.
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In a tearjerking manner.
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Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
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In a tense manner.
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Very badly.
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In a terrifying manner.
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In a timid manner.
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In a tired manner.
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In a tiresome manner; wearisomely.
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In a tiring manner; so as to tire somebody.
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In a toilsome manner.
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So as to cause toothache.
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Miserable or anguished, especially with anxiety or guilt.
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In a tormented manner.
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Full of torment; causing, or accompanied by, torment; excruciating.
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In a tormenting manner.
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(rare, dated) Involving or causing torment; having the nature of torture.
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Causing great grief or agony; painful; agonising
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Of literature, burdened by unnecessary complexity, obfuscation, abstruseness, etc.
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In a tortured manner.
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In a torturous fashion, or as if in torture
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Provoking sadness and pity; that can cause sadness or heartbreak among witnesses to a sad event or situation.
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In a tragic manner.
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In a traumatic manner.
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In a way that causes trauma.
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The quality of something that trembles.
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In a trepidatious manner; with trepidation
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In a tristful manner; sadly.
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Obsolete form of trist. [(obsolete) sad; sorrowful; gloomy]
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In a troubled way.
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In a troublesome manner.
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In a troubling manner; causing one to be troubled
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In a troublous manner.
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In a trying manner.
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In a turbulent manner.
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Sorrowfully.
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(archaic or obsolete) sorrowful; sad
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In an upsetting manner.
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Causing vellication; provoking irritation or twitching.
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In a vexatious manner; so as to give annoyance.
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Sudden death brought about by a strong emotional shock such as fear.
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In a wailful manner.
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In a weary manner.
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In a wearying way.
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In a weepy manner.
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In a weeping manner.
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In a woebegone manner.
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In a woeful manner; to an unfortunately great extent.
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In a worried manner.
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(rare) Worriedly.
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In a worrisome way.
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In a worrying manner
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In a wounded manner.
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In a way that wounds
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Causing, resembling, or indicating a wound or injury; hurtful; painful.
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(rare, figuratively) Causing wounds.
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(rare) Causing great pain, suffering, or agony; painful
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In a wretched manner.
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In a yawnful manner; boringly.

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