suffering

  • (s) troubled by pain or loss
    • suffering refugees
  • (s) very unhappy; full of misery
    • he felt depressed and miserable
    • a message of hope for suffering humanity
    • wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages
    miserable, wretched,

Nouns

  • (n) a state of acute pain excruciation, agony,
  • (n) misery resulting from affliction woe,
  • (n) psychological suffering
    • the death of his wife caused him great distress
    distress, hurt,
  • (n) feelings of mental or physical pain hurt,

Synonyms

excruciation agony miserable wretched woe distress hurt

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