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distressed collapse: facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found themselves in a bad way financially"

afflicted collapse: mentally or physically unfit; grievously affected especially by disease

sad collapse: experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti; of things that make you feel sad; "sad news"; "she doesn't like sad movies"; "it was a very sad story"; "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"- Christina Rossetti

aching collapse: causing a dull and steady pain; "my aching head"; "her old achy joints"

permissive collapse: granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline; "direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive"; "permissive parents"; not preventive

benevolent collapse: generous in providing aid to others; intending or showing kindness; "a benevolent society"

suspense collapse: an uncertain cognitive state; "the matter remained in suspense for several years"; excited anticipation of an approaching climax; "the play kept the audience in suspense"; apprehension about what is going to happen

stoic collapse: a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno; "a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny"; someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions; seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; "stoic courage"; "stoic patience"; "a stoical sufferer"; pertaining to Stoicism or its followers

perseverance collapse: the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior; "his perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate"

distress collapse: the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"; psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress"; extreme physical pain; "the patient appeared to be in distress"; a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need); "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress"; cause mental pain to; "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"

hell collapse: noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes"; (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"; a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes"; any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits";

spleen collapse: a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses

fortitude collapse: strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage

indulgence collapse: the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution; "in the Middle Ages the unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners became a widespread abuse"; the act of indulging or gratifying a desire; a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone; "too much indulgence spoils a child"; an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires

self-denial collapse: the act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses

pucker collapse: an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth); to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"; become wrinkled or drawn together; "her lips puckered"

trouble collapse: an effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty"; a source of difficulty; "one trouble after another delayed the job"; "what's the problem?"; an event causing distress or pain; "what is the trouble?"; "heart trouble"; an unwanted pregnancy; "he got several girls in trouble"; to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..."

kindness collapse: a kind act; the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic

nausea collapse: disgust so strong it makes you feel sick; the state that precedes vomiting

forbearance collapse: a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was alarming"

dissatisfaction collapse: the feeling of being displeased and discontent; "he was never slow to express his dissatisfaction with the service he received"

tension collapse: the action of stretching something tight; "tension holds the belt in the pulleys"; (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body; "the direction of maximum tension moves asymptotically toward the direction of the shear"; a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature); "there is a tension created between narrative time and movie time"; "there is a tension between these approaches to understanding history"; (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor"; the physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body"

resignation collapse: a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign; "he submitted his resignation as of next month"; the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.); acceptance of despair

stodgy collapse: excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"; heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"

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