suffering

adjectivenounverbcommon in dialogue

//ˈsʌfəɹɪŋ//
//ˈsʌfɹɪŋ//

Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.

adjective

1
Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.
Her last night was very suffering, the anodyne she took gave her no relief, and for the first time she lay till near noon.
My heart is full, but my body too suffering to go on.
Just to hear them was very suffering ... It must have been so unbearable to have to yell like that.
I was listening her because she was telling me she was very suffering and that she was praying for her pains, for sinners, for poor, for ill people and for afflicted.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti Proto-Italic *ferō Latin ferō Latin suffero Latin sufferre Vulgar Latin *sufferīre Old French suffrirbor. Middle English suffren English suffer Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English suffering By surface analysis, suffer + -ing.

noun

1
The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
"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.

verb

1
Also a form of sufferpresent participle and gerund of suffer

Forms

plural: sufferings

sue · To file a legal action against someone, generally a…Sue · A diminutive of the female given name Susan and of related…suffer · To undergo hardship.

suffering · Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.

suffice · To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything);…sufficient · An adequate quantity of; enough.sufficiently · In a sufficient manner; enough.

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