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living hell, scourge, wretchedness, nightmare, woe, smite, convulse, draw blood, hack up, slaughter, serrating, serrates, Jagging, pained, in flames, anguished, work hard, lose sleep over, working hard, stick it out, stay the course, stayed the course, be on tenterhooks, be on pins and needles, lead on, make mouth water, led on, keep hanging, leads on, feel uneasy, bite one's nails, gnaw at, biting one's nails, Dunned, biting nails, have qualms, sweating out, bite nails, Dunning, concern oneself, sweat out, DUNS, curse, agonizingness, tough going, discomposure, do wrong, wrest, aggrieve, cheerless, thumbscrew, obduracy, lash, maim, evil eye, arduous, offensively, disquietude, dismemberment, flagellation, bend, claw, misuse, pierce, Martyrization, blight, pummel, needle, misconceive, subjugation, besiege, insultingly, tweak, pathetic, impulse, torturous, paroxysm, beating, bewitch, dusky, Misexpound, extort, Misdeem, impale, grill, prey on, depression, chivy, beleaguer, cruelness, 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misconstrue, miserable, rock pile, vexation, engine, chivvvy, beat, cruciate, rasp, iron heel, thorn, despair, agonise, dolorous, annoyance, manhandling, misread, condemn, effort, put to the question, restraint, comfortless, rub, twirl, despondent, agonising pain, deform, scud, grievous, lancinate, adversity, difficult, exile, twisting, Picketing, Cruciation, fail, downcast, falsify, disquiet, optical aberration, tempt, bedevilment, Estrapade, gehenna, varnish, chaos, gauntlet, slant, misunderstand, destroy, exasperate, forlorn, Discomfiting, wrong, Miscite, beset, alter, tormenting, mutilate, straining, horror, gouge, tough luck, impalement, entice, wind, wring, victimize, give pain, victimization, hound, hassle, bear, fester, Fustigation, disappoint, tyrannize, despotism, cloven foot, Immanity, mortification, bitch, slap, pinch, join issue, savage, trouncing, mental distress, mistake, heart of stone, squeeze, tantalise, Galleys, misdirect, boot, pangs, struggle, grind, truculence, pitiful, rough, color, taunt, change, doleful, kick, blow, calamitous, depressing, prick, desolate, downhearted, misquote, dismember, Disserve, Desolateness, befoul, abusively, railriding, gloomy, Lancination, painful, throes, hardness of heart, provoke, mistreat, hit out, do someone wrong, grind down, kick around, shove around, trample, reject, reward, EINA, neuralgia, devastate, happy, depress, upset, dismay, hang over, disturb, hurtings, grillings, bad-time, goingover, hard heartedness, un kindnesses, un feelingnesses, unkindnesses, heartlessnesses, Masochisms, in sensitivenesses, hardheartednesses, hard heartednesses, in sensibilities, un kindness, in sensibility, in-sensibility, in humanity, un-kindness, in-sensitiveness, in-sensibilities, fiendishnesses, un-feelingness, in-humanities, callousnesses, insensitivenesses, in sensitiveness, hard-heartednesses, ruthlessnesses, in humanities, unfeelingnesses, un-feelingnesses, mercilessnesses, murderousnesses, bloodthirstinesses, savagenesses, brutishnesses, in-sensitivenesses, in-humanity, un-kindnesses, un feelingness, de-solation, de solation, dis-traction, un-happinesses, dis comfort, dis-comforts, de solations, dis traction, un happinesses, disconsolatenesses, un happiness, dis-tractions, dis-comfort, dis tractions, dis comforts, de-solations, un-happiness, twistednesses, malconformations, in-torsion, tall stories, mis-interpretations, co-loring, mis-representation, in torsion, mis-statements, in-torsions, co loring, mis-interpretation, intorsions, mis interpretation, mis statement, co lorings, mis representation, mis interpretations, mis-representations, mis statements, in torsions, mis representations, co-lorings, dis quietude, dis tresses, dis-tresses, dis tress, dis appointments, dis appointment, unconsolabilities, dis-quietude, dis-appointments, worriments, head-ache, dis-appointment, dis-tress, dis-quietudes, dis quietudes, be-wailing, be moaning, in-felicity, re morse, in-felicities, re-pining, be wailing, in felicities, re pining, re-morse, re-morses, repinings, bewailings, in felicity, lamentings, deplorings, be-moaning, bemoanings, re morses, broken hearts, heartsickness, desperation, hadeses, everlasting fires, under-world, tortures the damned, hell-fires, under worlds, gehennas, lower worlds, tortures damned, fire brimstone, living-hell, under-worlds, under world, place torment, hellfires, hell fires, tortures of damned, unselfishness, self-immolation, self-sacrifice, anvil choru, calvaries, bite, cramp, burn, chafing, inflammation, injury, ache, painfulness, stitch, malaise, rack, irritation, Migraine, sting, sore, smarting, pang, discomfort, infliction, throe, stab, bruise, spasm, affliction, wrench, crick, Back Ache, throb, gripe, earache, arduousness, aggravation, odiousness, grievousness, annoyingness, oppressiveness, woefulness, uncomfortableness, irksomeness, unpleasantness, hurtfulness, offensiveness, bitterness, acuteness, soreness, distressfulness, punishment, illtreatments, mis-treatments, mis treatments, mis treatment, illtreatment, mis-treatment, gallings, ill-treatments, teasings, provokings, ill treatment, confinement, chastisement, forfeiture, retribution, reprisal, incarceration, price, payment, verdict, penalty, revenge, imprisonment, correction, castigation, judgment, execution, third degree, mis fortunes, mis-fortunes, mis fortune, pro vocations, excruciations, pro vocation, pain neck, pain in neck, pro-vocations, Torturing., traumatization, brawl, assault, thuggery, brutality, fracas, vandalism, barbarity, rage, vehemence, frenzy, wildness, broil, atrocity, insurrection, outrage, uproar, violence, fight, intensity, destructiveness, turmoil, fury, fierceness, commotion, attack, terrorism, be sets, be-setting, be-sets, be setting, be-set, eating heart out, sung the blues, stews over, sings blues, eats heart out, ate heart out, sang the blues, stewed over, sing blues, took it badly, takes badly, take badly, sings the blues, sang blues, singing blues, sung blues, took badly, takes it badly, taking badly, taking it badly, stewing over, buffaloing, co wed, over bears, riding roughshod, turn heat, leans on, walks heavy, turning the heat, over bear, co wing, over bearing, over bore, over-born, turned on heat, co-wing, turning on the heat, despotized, turns on the heat, turns heat, turning heat, over born, turned the heat, turns on heat, overbore, turn on heat, leaned on, rid roughshod, walked heavy, over-borne, over-bears, turning on heat, turns the heat, turned on the heat, over borne, turned heat, leant on, co-wed, over-bore, overborn, walking heavy, turn the heat, despotizes, despotizing, showboated, rode roughshod, Over-bearing, rides roughshod, de forming, DE Form, mis shapen, mis-shaped, de-form, mis shaped, de formed, de-forming, mis-shapes, mis shaping, mis-shape, mis shapes, mis shape, de-forms, de-formed, de forms, mis-shaping, be deviling, be-devil, be devilling, be devils, be-devils, tare to pieces, be 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mis represents, phonying up, mis construes, mis interpret, dis figured, mis-represents, trumps up, be case, doest a number on, de-pressing, de-presses, doth a number on, de pressed, are on case, wast one's case, art case, dost a number on, de pressing, wert one case, is on case, de-solating, dis tressed, being on ones case, was on one case, burnt up, wast on one's case, made tough for, gave hard time, pushing buttons, wast ones case, being ones case, did number on, being case, nit picks, wert on ones case, gives a hard time, am on one case, didst a number on, am on case, did a number on, were on case, doeth a number on, wert on one case, make tough for, nit-picked, made it tough for, didst number on, give hard time, be one's case, gat to, art one's case, dis quieted, were case, giving hard time, dis-quieting, is one case, doeth number on, nit-picks, is on one case, wert ones case, doest number on, am ones case, are case, de solates, gave a hard time, dis quieting, dis quiets, de-press, 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case, am on ones case, were on one case, are on ones case, were on one's case, was on ones case, was on case, nit picking, burns up, are ones case, de solate, art ones case, were one case, are on one case, is ones case, dis-tressed, gotten to, doth number on, de solated, ex-cruciate, ex cruciate, up-sets, dis commode, dis pleasing, dis-comfit, cut the quick, does violence, laying bad trip on, dis pleased, doing violence, gives no quarter, hits where one lives, wast tender, dost violence, wert sore, dis-please, dis-pleasing, am sore, going for jugular, laid a bad trip on, being tender, went for jugular, hitting where one lives, dis-comfits, are sore, dis-pleased, dis-commodes, zinged, thumbed nose at, art sore, doest violence, dis comfit, cutting the quick, am tender, dis commodes, wast sore, cuts the quick, cuts to quick, cutting to quick, cutting to the quick, thumbing nose at, doeth violence, is sore, were sore, giving no quarter, was tender, dis-pleases, hit where lives, is tender, wert tender, wracks up, thumbs nose at, being sore, works over, up sets, cut quick, cut to quick, doth violence, lay bad trip on, wracked up, didst violence, cutting quick, laying a bad trip on, up setting, were tender, up-set, gave no quarter, hitting where lives, did violence, lays bad trip on, up-setting, cuts quick, goes for jugular, lays a bad trip on, dis pleases, hits where lives, are tender, wracking up, cuts to the quick, wrought over, dis-commode, dis comfits, laid bad trip on, art tender, dis please, hacked up, drawing blood, under-mining, de-face, drew blood, under mining, hacking up, de facing, de-faces, de faces, de face, hacks up, draws blood, under mined, under-mined, de-facing, de-faced, de faced, burn at stake, burn stake, put on rack, putting the rack, puts the rack, burns the stake, burnt the stake, burned at stake, burnt at the stake, put the rack, puts to death, put death, puts rack, burned the stake, puts on rack, burns at stake, burnt stake, puts on the rack, 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heavy up on, over comes, putting screws to, over loads, weighs heavy up on, over-powered, over whelmed, over whelms, dis heartening, over load, dis-hearten, out-rage, putting up on, dis-heartened, out-raging, putting the squeeze on, weighed heavy up on, puts up on, over loading, putting squeeze on, over-loaded, weighing heavy upon, over-thrown, over powered, sub jugate, chafe, suffer, smart, inflame, irritate, drave wall, drave the wall, drove up wall, driving the wall, drives up wall, drove the wall, drave up the wall, drives the wall, drove wall, driving up wall, driving wall, drove up the wall, drive up wall, drives up the wall, drives wall, drive wall, drave up wall, drive the wall, driving up the wall, be leaguering, be-leaguered, be-leaguers, be leaguer, be leaguered, be-leaguering, be-leaguer, be leaguers, chasten, incarcerate, avenge, chastise, lambaste, Keelhaul, punish, correct, penalize, castigate, sentence, confine, pillory, execute, discipline, reprise, imprison, burden, fine, judge, am autocratic, over rides, re vile, were autocratic, over rode, over ridden, over-rides, art arbitrary, up-braiding, was arbitrary, being autocratic, is arbitrary, is autocratic, over-riding, re-vile, over-rode, over riding, wert arbitrary, are autocratic, be rates, be rate, up braid, am arbitrary, was autocratic, being arbitrary, are arbitrary, over ride, be-rate, up braids, over-ridden, up-braids, wert autocratic, wast arbitrary, were arbitrary, be rating, wast autocratic, be rated, up braided, be-rates, up-braid, be-rated, art autocratic, be-rating, up-braided, de stroys, de-stroy, didst in exterminate, doest in exterminate, didst exterminate, totalling trounce, de-stroying, totals trounce, did in exterminate, totaling trounce, doth in exterminate, dost exterminate, do exterminate, does in exterminate, doeth in exterminate, totaled trounce, did exterminate, de feats, de stroy, doing in exterminate, de stroyed, does exterminate, doest exterminate, totalled trounce, dost in exterminate, de-stroyed, de stroying, de-feats, de-feat, doeth exterminate, de-stroys, de feat, doing exterminate, doth exterminate, dealing blow, deal blow, falls up on, setting upon, deals blow, falling upon, dealing a blow, dealt blow, sets up on, fell up on, set up on, falls upon, falling up on, fall up on, dealt a blow, deals a blow, setting up on, are pins needles, stays course, wert pins needles, wert on pins and needles, being pins needles, losing sleep over, stayed course, wrought hard, are on pins needles, is tenterhooks, wert on tenterhooks, staying the course, wast pins and needles, sticks it out, are pins and needles, am tenterhooks, was pins and needles, being on tenterhooks, am pins and needles, be tenterhooks, art tenterhooks, are on tenterhooks, wast on tenterhooks, be pins and needles, being tenterhooks, works hard, art pins and needles, lost sleep over, were on pins needles, wast tenterhooks, art pins needles, be on pins needles, was on tenterhooks, staid course, were tenterhooks, were pins and needles, being on pins and needles, wast pins needles, wert tenterhooks, wert pins and needles, sticked it out, was tenterhooks, stays the course, am on pins needles, sticking it out, stay course, loses sleep over, was pins needles, am pins needles, am on pins and needles, are on pins and needles, was on pins and needles, were on tenterhooks, is on pins and needles, stuck it out, staying course, wast on pins and needles, wert on pins needles, were pins needles, be pins needles, is on pins needles, being pins and needles, wast on pins needles, is pins needles, was on pins needles, staid the course, were on pins and needles, is pins and needles, being on pins needles, is on tenterhooks, are tenterhooks, worked hard, am on tenterhooks, makes mouth water, keeping hanging, made mouth water, kept hanging, keeps hanging, making mouth water, draw quarter, draws quarter, drawing quarter, drawing and quarter, criticizing severely, draws and quarter, tar feather, criticizes severely, drew quarter, drew and quarter, criticized severely, mis treat, rubs salt in wound, drave bananas, rubbing salt wound, rubbed salt in wound, played cat mouse, rub salt wound, mis-treats, plays cat and mouse, plays cat mouse, rubs salt wound, puts through wringer, mis treated, rubbed salt wound, played cat and mouse, mis-treat, driving bananas, mis treating, putting through wringer, rubbing salt in wound, drove bananas, mis-treated, drives bananas, playing cat and mouse, play cat mouse, mis treats, playing cat mouse, in-convenience, in-conveniences, in conveniences, abuse, de-based, de base, de-base, de basing, de based, de-basing, bite ones nails, sweated out, hath qualms, un-settled, bites ones nails, bit nails, feeling uneasy, bites one's nails, bites nails, concerned oneself, having qualms, concerning oneself, felt uneasy, biting ones nails, un settles, gnawed at, feels uneasy, bite one nails, un settle, un-settling, bit ones nails, gnaws at, concerns oneself, bites one nails, hadst qualms

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