suffering

Definitions

1. The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
   countable, uncountable
2. Suffer.

Equivalents

Examples

“"The Japanese imperialists enforced the harshest colonial rule⟳ in history over Korea, bringing unspeakably horrible misfortune and sufferings and disasters to the Korean nation," said a spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.”

“Robins, of Torquay, had denied a single charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. She claimed the microwave was accidentally turned on by one of the cats after the kitten got inside. But Knutton said the kitten was too small to even get⟳ onto the work⟳ surface.”

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