Definitions of suffering

1. 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.

2. Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.

3. The bearing of physical or mental pain; the pain borne; loss or injury endured.

4. Distress, loss, or injury.

5. Anything suffered; pain; loss; injury.

6. Misery; distress.

7. The bearing of pain, inconvenience or loss; pain endured; distress, loss or injury incurred.

8. Undergoing pain or loss; permitting.