any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.

a primitive form of trial to determine guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to fire, poison, or other serious danger, the result being regarded as a divine or preternatural judgment.

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happiness , pleasure

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affliction , agony , anguish , calamity , calvary , cross , crucible , difficulty , distress , nightmare , test , torment , torture , trial , tribulation , visitation , experience , grief , suffering , tragedy , trouble