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- abject apology,
- acknowledgment,
- apologies,
- apology,
- attrition,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- bitterness,
- breast-beating,
- compunction,
- confession,
- contriteness,
- excuse,
- grief,
- mea culpa,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitently,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repentance,
- repining,
- rue,
- ruth,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- wistfulness
- anxiety,
- apologies,
- attrition,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- bitterness,
- compunction,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- embarrassment,
- grief,
- guilt,
- guilty conscience,
- humiliation,
- mortification,
- pangs of conscience,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitently,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repentance,
- repining,
- rue,
- ruefulness,
- self-reproach,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- wistfulness,
- woe
- regret
collapse - be sorry; "I regret to say that you did not gain admission to Harvard"
- decline formally or politely; "I regret I can't come to the party"
- feel sad about the loss or absence of related words >
- abject apology,
- acknowledgment,
- affliction,
- anguish,
- apologies,
- apology,
- attrition,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- be sorry for,
- bemoan,
- bewail,
- bitterness,
- breast-beating,
- care,
- compunction,
- confession,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- demur,
- deplore,
- deprecate,
- disappointment,
- disapprove,
- dole,
- dolor,
- excuse,
- feel sorry for,
- grief,
- grieve,
- guilt,
- heartache,
- heartbreak,
- lament,
- mea culpa,
- mourn,
- mournfulness,
- pangs of conscience,
- penitence,
- qualm,
- refusal,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repent,
- repentance,
- repine,
- repining,
- rue,
- rue the day,
- ruefulness,
- sadness,
- scruple,
- second thoughts,
- self-condemnation,
- self-reproach,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- weep over,
- wistfulness,
- woe
- apology
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- a poor example; "it was an apology for a meal"; "a poor excuse for an automobile"
- an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone; "he wrote a letter of apology to the hostess"
- a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly related words >
- abject apology,
- acknowledgment,
- admission,
- advocating,
- advocation,
- alibi,
- amends,
- apologetic,
- apologetics,
- apologia,
- apologies,
- argument,
- argumentation,
- atonement,
- attrition,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- bicker,
- bickering,
- bitterness,
- blind,
- breast-beating,
- casuistry,
- championing,
- change of heart,
- cloak,
- color,
- concession,
- confession,
- contention,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- controversy,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deathbed repentance,
- defense,
- device,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- espousal,
- excuse,
- extenuation,
- facade,
- feint,
- flyting,
- front,
- gloss,
- grief,
- guise,
- handle,
- hassle,
- heartfelt apology,
- hubbub,
- justification,
- lame excuse,
- litigation,
- locus standi,
- logomachy,
- mask,
- mea culpa,
- ostensible motive,
- palliation,
- paper war,
- passage of arms,
- penance,
- penitence,
- polemic,
- polemics,
- poor excuse,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- redress,
- reformation,
- refuge,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- reparation,
- repentance,
- repining,
- rhubarb,
- saeta,
- satisfaction,
- screen,
- semblance,
- set-to,
- sham,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- show,
- smoke screen,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- stalking-horse,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- support,
- trick,
- varnish,
- veil,
- verbal engagement,
- war of words,
- wearing a hairshirt,
- wistfulness,
- wrangling
- attrition
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- the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
- a wearing down to weaken or destroy; "a war of attrition"
- sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation related words >
- abatement,
- ablation,
- abrasion,
- abrasive,
- absorption,
- apologies,
- assimilation,
- atomization,
- attenuation,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- beating,
- bitterness,
- blunting,
- brecciation,
- buffing,
- burning up,
- burnishing,
- chafe,
- chafing,
- comminution,
- consumption,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- corrosion,
- crumbling,
- crushing,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- damping,
- deadening,
- debilitation,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- deliquescence,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- detraction,
- detrition,
- devitalization,
- digestion,
- dilution,
- diminution,
- dip,
- disintegration,
- disparagement,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- drain,
- dressing,
- dulling,
- eating up,
- effemination,
- enervation,
- enfeeblement,
- erasure,
- erosion,
- evisceration,
- exhaustion,
- expending,
- expenditure,
- extenuation,
- extraction,
- fatigue,
- filing,
- finishing,
- fragmentation,
- fretting,
- galling,
- granulation,
- granulization,
- grating,
- grazing,
- grief,
- grinding,
- impairment,
- impoverishment,
- inanition,
- ingestion,
- languishment,
- lessening,
- levigation,
- limation,
- loss,
- mashing,
- mitigation,
- penance,
- penitently,
- polishing,
- pounding,
- powdering,
- rasping,
- reduction,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- relaxation,
- remission,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repentance,
- repining,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- rubbing away,
- rue,
- ruth,
- sandblasting,
- sanding,
- scouring,
- scrape,
- scraping,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scuff,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- shining,
- shortening,
- shredding,
- shrinkage,
- slackening,
- smashing,
- smoothing,
- softening,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- spending,
- squandering,
- thinning,
- trituration,
- truncation,
- using up,
- wastage,
- waste,
- wastefulness,
- wasting away,
- weakening,
- wear,
- wear and tear,
- wearing away,
- wearing down,
- wistfulness
- sorrow
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- an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement; "he tried to express his sorrow at her loss"
- sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment; "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game" related words >
- ache,
- adversity,
- afflict,
- affliction,
- aggrieve,
- agonize,
- agony,
- anguish,
- apologies,
- attrition,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- bad luck,
- bemoan,
- bemoaning,
- bewail,
- bewailing,
- bitter cup,
- bitter draft,
- bitter draught,
- bitter pill,
- bitterness,
- bleed,
- break down,
- bring to tears,
- brood over,
- burden,
- burden of care,
- cankerworm of care,
- care,
- cares,
- carking care,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- cross,
- crown of thorns,
- crush,
- curse,
- cut up,
- dejection,
- deplore,
- depression,
- desolate,
- desolateness,
- desolation,
- dirge,
- discomfort,
- dismay,
- distress,
- dole,
- dolor,
- draw tears,
- elegize,
- embitter,
- encumbrance,
- fret,
- gall,
- gall and wormwood,
- give sorrow words,
- grief,
- grievance,
- grieve,
- grieving,
- groan,
- hard luck,
- hardship,
- heartache,
- heartbreak,
- heartfelt grief,
- heartgrief,
- howling,
- infliction,
- inundate,
- keen,
- keening,
- knell,
- lament,
- lamentation,
- lamenting,
- languishment,
- load,
- melancholy,
- misery,
- misfortune,
- moan,
- moaning,
- mope,
- mourn,
- mourning,
- oppress,
- oppression,
- overwhelm,
- pack of troubles,
- pain,
- peck of troubles,
- pine,
- pine away,
- pining,
- pressure,
- prostrate,
- prostration,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repine,
- repining,
- rue,
- sadness,
- sea of troubles,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- sigh,
- sing the blues,
- sob,
- sorriness,
- sorrowfulness,
- sorrowing,
- strain,
- suffering,
- take on,
- thorn,
- torment,
- travail,
- trial,
- tribulation,
- trouble,
- ululation,
- unhappiness,
- wailing,
- waters of bitterness,
- weep over,
- weight,
- wistfulness,
- woe,
- wretchedness
- grief
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- something that causes great unhappiness; "her death was a great grief to John"
- intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) related words >
- accident,
- ache,
- aching,
- aching heart,
- adversity,
- affliction,
- agony,
- agony of mind,
- anguish,
- apologies,
- attrition,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- bale,
- bemoaning,
- bewailing,
- bitterness,
- bleakness,
- bleeding heart,
- blow,
- broken heart,
- burden,
- calamity,
- care,
- carking care,
- casualty,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- cheerlessness,
- collision,
- come apart,
- come to grief,
- come unstuck,
- comfortlessness,
- contretemps,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- crack-up,
- cramp,
- crash,
- crushing,
- curse,
- cut,
- dejection,
- depression,
- depth of misery,
- desolation,
- despair,
- despondency,
- difficulty,
- disaster,
- discomfort,
- dismalness,
- distress,
- distressfulness,
- dole,
- dolor,
- dreariness,
- extremity,
- fail,
- grievousness,
- heartache,
- heartbreak,
- heartfelt grief,
- heartgrief,
- heavy heart,
- hurt,
- ill hap,
- infelicity,
- injury,
- joylessness,
- lamentability,
- lamentation,
- lamenting,
- languishment,
- lesion,
- load,
- melancholia,
- melancholy,
- misadventure,
- miscarry,
- mischance,
- misery,
- misfortune,
- mishap,
- mournfulness,
- nasty blow,
- onus,
- ordeal,
- pain,
- painfulness,
- pang,
- passion,
- pathos,
- pileup,
- pining,
- pitiability,
- pitiableness,
- pitifulness,
- poignancy,
- prostration,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regrettableness,
- regretting,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repining,
- rue,
- ruth,
- sadness,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- sharpness,
- shipwreck,
- shock,
- smash,
- smashup,
- sore,
- sore spot,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- sorrowfulness,
- sorrowing,
- spasm,
- staggering blow,
- stress,
- stress of life,
- stroke,
- suffering,
- suicidal despair,
- tender spot,
- throes,
- torment,
- tragedy,
- trauma,
- travail,
- trial,
- tribulation,
- trouble,
- unhappiness,
- wistfulness,
- woe,
- woebegoneness,
- woefulness,
- worry,
- wound,
- wreck,
- wrench,
- wretchedness
- shame
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- a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt
- a state of dishonor; "one mistake brought shame to all his family"; "suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison"
- surpass or beat by a wide margin
- cause to be ashamed
- compel through a sense of shame; "She shamed him into making amends" related words >
- abasement,
- abash,
- abashment,
- abomination,
- apologies,
- atrocity,
- attrition,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- bad,
- besmirch,
- bitterness,
- blacken,
- bring down,
- bring into discredit,
- bring low,
- bring shame upon,
- bully,
- burning shame,
- byword,
- byword of reproach,
- calamity,
- calumniate,
- calumniation,
- cast reproach upon,
- catastrophe,
- chagrin,
- chasten,
- coerce,
- comedown,
- contempt,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- coyness,
- debase,
- debasement,
- decency,
- decorousness,
- decorum,
- defamation,
- defame,
- deflate,
- deflation,
- defrock,
- degradation,
- degrade,
- delicacy,
- denigration,
- deplume,
- derogation,
- descent,
- desecration,
- diffidence,
- dirty shame,
- disaster,
- disconcert,
- discountenance,
- discredit,
- disesteem,
- disfavor,
- disgrace,
- dishonor,
- disparagement,
- displume,
- disrepute,
- drive,
- dump,
- eclipse,
- elegance,
- embarrass,
- embarrassment,
- error,
- evil,
- force,
- grief,
- guilt,
- hangdog look,
- humble,
- humbled pride,
- humiliate,
- humiliation,
- humility,
- ignominy,
- impute shame to,
- infamy,
- iniquity,
- knavery,
- let down,
- letdown,
- low-down dirty shame,
- modesty,
- mortification,
- mortify,
- obliquity,
- obloquy,
- odium,
- opprobrium,
- outclass,
- outdo,
- outrage,
- outshine,
- outstrip,
- overshadow,
- peccancy,
- pillory,
- pity,
- profanation,
- propriety,
- prudishness,
- pudency,
- pudicity,
- push,
- put down,
- put out,
- put to shame,
- put-down,
- reflect discredit upon,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repining,
- reproach,
- reprobacy,
- respectability,
- sacrilege,
- scandal,
- scandalize,
- seemliness,
- self-abasement,
- self-abnegation,
- self-diminishment,
- self-reproach,
- setdown,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- show up,
- shyness,
- sin,
- smear,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- stain,
- stigmatize,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- surpass,
- taint,
- tarnish,
- terrible thing,
- timidity,
- unfrock,
- vilification,
- villainy,
- violation,
- wistfulness,
- wrong
- bitterness
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- a rough and bitter manner
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste related words >
- absolute zero,
- acerbity,
- aching heart,
- acid,
- acidity,
- acidness,
- acidulousness,
- acridity,
- acridness,
- acrimony,
- agony,
- agony of mind,
- algidity,
- anguish,
- animosity,
- animus,
- antagonism,
- apologies,
- asperity,
- astringence,
- astringency,
- attrition,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- bad blood,
- bale,
- bile,
- bite,
- bitingness,
- bitter feeling,
- bitter pill,
- bitter resentment,
- bitterness,
- bitterness of spirit,
- bleakness,
- bleeding heart,
- briskness,
- broken heart,
- causticity,
- causticness,
- cheerlessness,
- chill,
- chilliness,
- choler,
- cold,
- coldness,
- comfortlessness,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- cool,
- coolness,
- coolth,
- corrosiveness,
- crispness,
- crushing,
- cryogenics,
- cryology,
- cuttingness,
- decrease in temperature,
- depression,
- depth of misery,
- desolation,
- despair,
- discomfort,
- dismalness,
- distress,
- distressfulness,
- dreariness,
- edge,
- enmity,
- extremity,
- feud,
- fierceness,
- freezing point,
- freshness,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- gall,
- gall and wormwood,
- gelidity,
- gnashing of teeth,
- grief,
- grievousness,
- grip,
- hard feelings,
- harshness,
- hatred,
- heartache,
- heartburning,
- heavy heart,
- hostility,
- iciness,
- ill blood,
- ill feeling,
- ill will,
- incisiveness,
- inclemency,
- infelicity,
- intense cold,
- joylessness,
- keenness,
- lamentability,
- lamentation,
- low temperature,
- melancholia,
- melancholy,
- misery,
- mordacity,
- mordancy,
- mournfulness,
- nip,
- nippiness,
- pain,
- painfulness,
- pathos,
- piercingness,
- piquancy,
- pitiability,
- pitiableness,
- pitifulness,
- poignancy,
- point,
- prostration,
- pungency,
- rancor,
- rankling,
- rawness,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regrettableness,
- regretting,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repining,
- resentment,
- rigor,
- roughness,
- sadness,
- severity,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- sharp air,
- sharpness,
- slow burn,
- soreness,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- sorrowfulness,
- sourness,
- spleen,
- stabbingness,
- sting,
- stridency,
- stringency,
- suicidal despair,
- tartness,
- teeth,
- trenchancy,
- vehemence,
- vendetta,
- venom,
- violence,
- virulence,
- vitriol,
- wistfulness,
- woe,
- woebegoneness,
- woefulness,
- wretchedness
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