suffering

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/ˈsʌfəɹɪŋ/

adj 1noun 1

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(noun.)

ADJ

great, intense, terrible, unbearable | needless, unnecessary | widespread | human

mental, physical

After the accident, he experienced both physical suffering and emotional pain that lasted for months.

QUANT

amount

The doctors were shocked by the sheer amount of suffering they witnessed in the refugee camp.

VERB + SUFFERING

cause (sb), inflict | increase

alleviate, ease, reduce, relieve

The new pain medication helped ease her suffering during the final weeks of illness.

endure, experience

PHRASES

pain and suffering

The war brought immense pain and suffering to thousands of families in the region.

Definitions

adj

Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.

Her last night was very suffering, the anodyne she took gave her no relief, and for the first time she lay till near noon.

My heart is full, but my body too suffering to go on.

noun

The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.

"The Japanese imperialists enforced the harshest colonial rule in history over Korea, bringing unspeakably horrible misfortune and sufferings and disasters to the Korean nation," said a spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

Robins, of Torquay, had denied a single charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. She claimed the microwave was accidentally turned on by one of the cats after the kitten got inside. But Knutton said the kitten was too small to even get onto the work surface.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — feelings of mental or physical pain

hurt

noun — psychological suffering

noun — a state of acute pain

agony
excruciation

noun — misery resulting from affliction

adjective — very unhappy

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Her last night was very suffering, the anodyne she took gave her no relief, and for the first time she lay till near noon.

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My heart is full, but my body too suffering to go on.

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I said that Miss Kinney opened the wound; I had not seen the burn then, myself; I was too ill and too suffering to rise up to see the whole surface of it; this was on Thursday morning, the morning aft

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"The Japanese imperialists enforced the harshest colonial rule in history over Korea, bringing unspeakably horrible misfortune and sufferings and disasters to the Korean nation," said a spokesman for

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Why is life so full of suffering?

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