Suffering - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- misery resulting from affliction (syn: woe)
- psychological suffering (syn: distress, hurt)
- feelings of mental or physical pain (syn: hurt)
adjective
Extra examples
They hope these new drugs will help to bring an end to the suffering of arthritis patients.
His lawsuit seeks damages for pain and suffering.
He is suffering from want of adequate sleep.
The thing to note here is that people are suffering.
She has been suffering from a lack of sleep lately.
The patient was suffering from heart failure.
With the passage of time, the number of children suffering with the disease has decreased dramatically.
I wish I could relieve your suffering.
...an experimental procedure for patients suffering from leukemia...
I was suffering from terminal boredom.
The war left a legacy of pain and suffering.
...Nazism's almost epic nationalism appealed to downtrodden Germans still suffering the humiliation of being defeated in World War I....
...she's currently suffering from a bout of the flu...
He acted with depraved indifference to human suffering.
He is suffering from dyspepsia.
Word forms
singular: suffering
plural: sufferings
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