3
spasm(noun, pain)
2
broken heart(noun, expression, idiom, distress, pain)
2
anger(noun, feeling, love, passion, desire)
2
apologies(noun, worry, concern, shame, anguish)
2
apology(noun, worry, concern, shame, anguish)
2
attrition(noun, distress, shame, sorrow, anguish)
2
bad fortune(noun, pain, sufferings)
2
bale(ruin, pain, sorrow, catastrophe, despair)
2
bane(noun, trouble, ruin, blow, distress)
2
bite(noun, pain)
2
bleakness(noun, distress, sorrow, depression, melancholy)
2
bleeding heart(expression, idiom, pain)
2
blue devils(noun, expression, sorrow, depression, melancholy)
2
blue funk(noun, expression, distress, sorrow, depression)
2
bother(noun, verb, trouble, worry, blow)
2
bruise(noun, pain)
2
burn(noun, pain)
2
cataclysm(noun, trouble, ruin, harm, distress)
2
cheerlessness(noun, distress, sorrow, depression, melancholy)
2
collision(ruin, catastrophe, tragedy)
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