#difficulty.state  a situation or condition almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome: "grappling with financial difficulties"
  supertype:  condition.state__status  a condition or state at a particular time: "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
  subtype:  bitch.difficulty  (slang) an unpleasant difficulty; "this problem is a real bitch"
  subtype:  predicament__quandary__plight  a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one: "finds himself in a most awkward predicament"; "the woeful plight of homeless people"
     subtype:  care  a cause for feeling concern; "his major care was the illness of his wife"
     subtype:  corner.predicament__box  a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible; "his lying got him into a tight corner"
     subtype:  hot_water  a dangerous or distressing predicament; "his views on race got him into political hot water"
  subtype:  rattrap.difficulty  a difficult entangling situation
  subtype:  pinch.difficulty  a painful or straitened circumstance: "the pinch of the recession"
  subtype:  muddle__fix__hole__jam__mess__pickle__kettle_of_fish  informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
  subtype:  hard_time  a difficulty that can be overcome with effort; "we had a hard time getting here"
  subtype:  stress.difficulty__strain  difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension: "she endured the stresses and strains of life"; "he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger"- R.J.Samuelson
  subtype:  problem.difficulty__job  a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"
     subtype:  race_problem  a social and political problem caused by conflict between races occupying the same or adjacent regions
     subtype:  balance-of-payments_problem  an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports
  subtype:  urinary_hesitancy__urinaryhesitancy  difficulty in beginning the flow of urine; associated with prostate enlargement in men and with narrowing of the urethral opening in women; may be caused by emotional stress in either men or women
  subtype:  wall.difficulty  a difficult or awkward situation; "his back was to the wall"; "competition was pushing them to the wall"

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