difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation

to perplex; to disturb; to cause complications

bewildered; perplexed; confused; difficult problem; perplexity

predicament; plight

deprivation; distressed; miserable

tired; weary

in deep water; difficult situation

to stand a siege; trapped in a besieged city

dilemma; predicament; difficult situation

sleepiness; drowsiness

embarrassment

(dialect) to sleep

fatigued; exhausted; poverty-stricken; in straitened circumstances

a cornered beast will still fight (idiom); to fight like an animal at bay

to feel perplexed

the problem is...