Suffering

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  • noun. The condition of one who suffers; the bearing of pain or distress.
  • noun. An instance of pain or distress.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; also, pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred
  • adjective. Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Experiencing pain. syn.
  • noun. The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
  • verb. Present participle of suffer.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. very unhappy; full of misery
  • noun. misery resulting from affliction
  • noun. feelings of mental or physical pain
  • noun. psychological suffering
  • adjective. troubled by pain or loss
  • noun. a state of acute pain
  • Word Usage
    "He takes the case: '_A negro is a fellow-creature_: therefore, _A negro in suffering is a fellow-creature in suffering_.'"
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    troubled  unhappy  
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    buffering  
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    suffer