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Meaning of 'suffering' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Suffering [ a.]
- Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.
2 . Suffering [ 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.
3 . Suffering [ p. pr. & vb. n.]
- of Suffer

Meaning of 'suffering' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . suffering [ n]
Meaning (1):
- psychological suffering
Example in sentence:
  • the death of his wife caused him great distress
2 . suffering [ s]
Meaning (2):
- very unhappy; full of misery
Example in sentence:
  • a message of hope for suffering humanity;
  • he felt depressed and miserable;
  • wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages
Meaning (3):
- troubled by pain or loss
Example in sentence:
  • suffering refugees

Nearby Words:

suf- suffer sufferable sufferance suffered sufferer suffice sufficed sufficience sufficiency

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