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n.

1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. Sir W. Raleigh.

2. A wretched object; anything despicably. [Obs.]

Eat worms and such wretchedness.
Chaucer.
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  1. A state of physical or mental suffering: affliction, agony, anguish, distress, hurt, misery, pain, torment, torture, woe, wound. See happy/unhappy.
  2. A state of prolonged anguish and privation: misery, suffering, woe. See happy/unhappy.

 
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
  Synonym: misery

 
 
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