3
medical disorder(noun, weak, disorder, disease, ill)
3
melancholy(noun, trouble, worry, distress, pain)
3
painfulness(noun, pain, adversity)
3
pathological disease(noun, weak, disorder, disease, ill)
3
penalty(noun, punishment, plague, blight)
3
rue(noun, trouble, worry, distress, pain)
3
ruin(noun, trouble, hurt, wrong, damage)
3
sore(noun, adjective, cut, hurt, wrong)
3
sting(noun, cut, hurt, wrong, damage)
3
thorn(noun, trouble, blow, distress, care)
3
throb(noun, hurt, distress, pain, tenderness)
3
travail(noun, trouble, worry, difficulty, lack)
3
virus(disorder, disease, collapse, disturbance, illness)
3
weight(noun, trouble, force, strain, difficulty)
2
accident(noun, trouble, hurt, ruin, worry)
2
afflict(noun, verb, pain)
2
albatross(noun, trouble, worry, concern, blow)
2
bad news(noun, expression, trouble, ruin, worry)
2
bitter draught(expression, idiom, pain)
2
bitterness(noun, worry, concern, distress, pain)
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