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A state of grievous affliction or unhappiness; mental or physical suffering; wretchedness.
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Any afflictive or depressed condition; want of the means of livelihood; destitution: as, the burning of the factory caused much misery among the poor.
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A seated pain or ache; an acute local ailment: as, to have a misery in the teeth, or a misery in the side or back.
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That which makes miserable; a cause or source of affliction; misfortune; calamity: generally in the plural.
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Miserliness; penuriousness.
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Synonyms Affliction, Grief, Sorrow, etc. See affliction.
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See misére.