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miseries
Variant of misery
noun pl. miseries
- a condition of great wretchedness or suffering because of pain, sorrow, poverty, etc.; distress
- a cause of such suffering; pain, sorrow, poverty, squalor, etc.
- Dialectal a pain (in some part of the body)
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