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Suffering   /sˈəfərɪŋ/  /sˈəfrɪŋ/   Listen
Suffering

noun
1.
A state of acute pain.  Synonyms: agony, excruciation.
2.
Misery resulting from affliction.  Synonym: woe.
3.
Psychological suffering.  Synonyms: distress, hurt.
4.
Feelings of mental or physical pain.  Synonym: hurt.
adjective
1.
Troubled by pain or loss.
2.
Very unhappy; full of misery.  Synonyms: miserable, wretched.  "A message of hope for suffering humanity" , "Wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"



Suffer

verb
(past & past part. suffered; pres. part. suffering)
1.
Undergo or be subjected to.  Synonym: endure.  "Many saints suffered martyrdom"  Antonym: enjoy.
2.
Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses).  Synonyms: get, have, sustain.  "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars" , "She got a bruise on her leg" , "He got his arm broken in the scuffle"
3.
Experience (emotional) pain.
4.
Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.  Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, support, tolerate.  "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks" , "He learned to tolerate the heat" , "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
5.
Get worse.
6.
Feel pain or be in pain.  Synonym: hurt.  Antonym: be well.
7.
Feel physical pain.  Synonyms: ache, hurt.
8.
Feel unwell or uncomfortable.
9.
Be given to.
10.
Undergo or suffer.  Synonym: meet.  "Suffer a terrible fate"
11.
Be set at a disadvantage.  Synonym: lose.



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"Suffering" Quotes from Famous Books



... that if he associated with such men as Mogan he must suffer the consequences. The boy then went home, and securing an old cap and ball revolver, came back to the street. Mogan began on him again, and after suffering his abuse for some time, drew the revolver and shot him through the chest. Mogan ran a short distance and drawing his revolver, started back. Seeing that young Barnes was ready for him, he turned off, walked a short distance, sank down and died the next day. The affair created some excitement. ...
— Reminiscences of a Pioneer • Colonel William Thompson

... reasoning intelligence! Even after all the pollen has been deposited on the sticky stigmas of various blossoms, stump-like caudicles to which the two little sacs were attached have been found still plastered on a long-suffering bee. But so rich in nectar are the moisture-loving orchids that, to obtain a draught, the sticky plasters which she must carry do not seem too dear a price to pay. In this showy orchis the nectar often rises an eighth of an inch ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan

... the new demand for political enfranchisement arises from a desire to remedy the unsatisfactory and degrading social conditions which are responsible for so much wrongdoing and wretchedness. The fate of all the unfortunate, the suffering, the criminal, is daily forced upon public attention in painful and intimate ways. But because of the tendency to nationalize all industrial and commercial questions, to make the state responsible for the care of the helpless, to safeguard by law the food ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21 - The Recent Days (1910-1914) • Charles F. Horne, Editor

... securely, yet so as to cause him the least suffering, and then proceeded to improvise a gag. At this point his calmness disappeared, and for a short time he looked both ...
— My Sword's My Fortune - A Story of Old France • Herbert Hayens

... indeed anywhere whatsoever."[232] Man, however, by his free will causes evil in the human sphere; and when God formed in man a rational nature capable of choosing for itself, moral evil became the necessary contrary of good.[233] Moreover, the punitive activity of God, though it seems to cause suffering and misery, is in truth a good, simulating evil, and if men judged the universal process as a whole, they would find it all good. The existence of evil involves no derogation from ...
— Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria • Norman Bentwich


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