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| NOUN: | 1. A cause of distress or anxiety: care, concern, worry. See CONCERN. 2. The condition of being in need of immediate assistance: distress, exigence, exigency, hot water. See HELP. 3. The use of energy to do something: effort, endeavor, exertion, pain (used in plural), strain1, striving, struggle, while. Informal : elbow grease. See WORK. 4. The state or quality of being inconvenient: discomfort, incommodiousness, incommodity, inconvenience. See COMFORT. 5. A difficult, often embarrassing situation or condition: box1, corner, deep water, difficulty, dilemma, Dutch, fix, hole, hot spot, hot water, jam, plight1, predicament, quagmire, scrape, soup. Informal : bind, pickle, spot. See EASY. | | VERB: | 1. To come to mind continually: haunt, obsess, torment, weigh on or (upon). See REPETITION. 2. To cause inconvenience for: discomfort, discommode, incommode, inconvenience, put out. See COMFORT. 3. To cause anxious uneasiness in: ail, cark, concern, distress, worry. See CONCERN.
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