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"suffering" - meanings, definitions, synonyms, thesaurus and antonyms

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  1. [n] - feelings of mental or physical pain
  2. [n] - psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress"
  3. [n] - a state of acute pain
  4. [n] - misery resulting from affliction
  5. [adj] - very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
  6. [adj] - troubled by pain or loss; "suffering refugees"

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

  1. \Suf"fer*ing\, n.
The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured;
distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or
sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs. ``Souls in
sufferings tried.'' --Keble.

  2. \Suf"fer*ing\, a.
Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.
-- {Suf"fer*ing*ly}, adv.

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