[s_ˈʌ_f_ə_ɹ_ɪ_ŋ], [sˈʌfəɹɪŋ], [sˈʌfəɹɪŋ]
Definitions of suffering
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a state of acute pain
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psychological suffering; " the death of his wife caused him great distress"
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feelings of mental or physical pain
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very unhappy; full of misery; " he felt depressed and miserable"; " a message of hope for suffering humanity"; " wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
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troubled by pain or loss; " suffering refugees"
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misery resulting from affliction
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of Suffer
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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.
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Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.
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The bearing of physical or mental pain; the pain borne; loss or injury endured.
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Distress, loss, or injury.
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Anything suffered; pain; loss; injury.
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Misery; distress.
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The bearing of pain, inconvenience or loss; pain endured; distress, loss or injury incurred.
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Undergoing pain or loss; permitting.
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The bearing of pain or loss; injury incurred.
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Usage examples for suffering
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" That man is suffering – The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by Ralph Connor
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He does not write in good spirits, Stephen; he has been suffering a great deal lately. – Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Sewell
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Long- suffering and loving Joe, you never complain. – Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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His cousin Lella M'Barka Bent Djellab was with us,- very ill and suffering but brave. – The Golden Silence by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
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" You are suffering you are ill," he said. – The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle
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For all that, I can guard against Helen suffering actual hardship. – The Girl From Keller's Sadie's Conquest by Harold Bindloss
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Without a head nothing could be done with the sick and the suffering for without a head there is no thinking. – Marie Antoinette And Her Son by Louise Muhlbach Official
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" Do you mean that you have been suffering from this all this time? – Girls of the Forest by L. T. Meade
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But he had to be faced, and the pair went down into the drawing- room with a long- suffering expression on their faces. – At Love's Cost by Charles Garvice
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Each in the other, Dorothy and she recognized suffering and in a very few moments every thing was arranged between them. – Paul Faber, Surgeon by George MacDonald
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Now it was the idea that only Jeanne really loved him, that only Jeanne suffered through his suffering – The Saint by Antonio Fogazzaro Commentator: William Roscoe Thayer
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One might almost think you were suffering from an unhappy love- affair. – The Red Room by August Strindberg
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Some chegoes have got into your feet, and if they are not taken out quickly they will cause you a great deal of suffering – On the Banks of the Amazon by W.H.G. Kingston
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" You can imagine now," he said, " what I have been suffering – A Maker of History by E. Phillips Oppenheim
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She was learning fast to- day in the book of human passion, suffering and sin. – Outpost by J.G. Austin
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Why, sir, how many suffering people there must be in this land! – History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Wiliam H. Barnes
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I think he loved me, so that he took the shame and the suffering and the prison to save me. – Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Irving Bacheller
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" You would not be sorry if you knew why I am suffering he muttered. – Quick Action by Robert W. Chambers
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He is suffering to- day, and I wanted to save him the longer walk. – Thomas Wingfold, Curate by George MacDonald
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It was a sad mistake for the poor fellows, and brought a great deal of suffering upon themselves and others. – The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Child