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suffering

[ UK /sˈʌfəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈsəfɝɪŋ, ˈsəfɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a state of acute pain
  2. feelings of mental or physical pain
  3. misery resulting from affliction
  4. psychological suffering
    the death of his wife caused him great distress
ADJECTIVE
  1. troubled by pain or loss
    suffering refugees
  2. very unhappy; full of misery
    a message of hope for suffering humanity
    he felt depressed and miserable
    wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages

How To Use suffering In A Sentence

  • Dance the coxswain was the first affected in that way, but after a few moments Mark felt that the poor fellow had been suffering in The Black Bar
  • I love the way Sarajevans express themselves; it's a kind of world-weary, mordant wit overlying an amazing ability to absorb and survive great suffering. A Conversation with Geraldine Brooks about People of the Book
  • She had for weeks been suffering from a bad cough and chest infection.
  • It is pertinent to destigmatize depression, so those suffering from it could seek medical help.
  • It is common to see the book of Job as wrestling with the problem of innocent suffering. READING THE BIBLE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally.
  • Friday, March 27, 2009 at 06: 41 PM how odd to read this particular bit of news as i enjoy one of the only still-functioning electrical devices in my home (the computer), the others suffering from a mysterious anti-surge, in which switches produce only intermittent and then very weak current. nothing is 'crame' but the fridge has no cold, the water-heater no heat, the lamps flicker like candles guttering out their last wisp of light, etc. the electrician will be coming tomorrow; meanwhile one is very conscious of being (but not wishing to be) very spoiled and electrodependent ...... Cramer - French Word-A-Day
  • a cavalier attitude toward the suffering of others.
  • Still Life with Action Figure," a particularly realist exercise, actually occurs in suburbia, where an artist son visits his artist father, who has resumed painting despite suffering from parkinsonism. Ccfinlay: You Make My Heart Sing
  • They are suffering terribly but their mind is perfect, so it is a living hell.
  • It cannot be a good sign that the filmmakers are largely impervious to the insecurity and suffering of wide layers of the population.
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