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Suffering

//ˈsʌfəɹɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    very unhappy; full of misery wordnet
  2. 2
    troubled by pain or loss wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress. countable, uncountable

    ""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."

  2. 2
    feelings of mental or physical pain wordnet
  3. 3
    psychological suffering wordnet
  4. 4
    a state of acute pain wordnet
  5. 5
    misery resulting from affliction wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of suffer form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

By surface analysis, suffer + -ing.

Etymology 2

By surface analysis, suffer + -ing.

Etymology 3

By surface analysis, suffer + -ing.

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