Suffering Synonyms & Definitions

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• SufferingDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffer
2. (n.) 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.
3. (a.) Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.

• SufferDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. i.) To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.
2. (v. i.) To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient; as, we suffer from pain, sickness, or sorrow; we suffer with anxiety.
3. (v. t.) To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.
4. (v. t.) To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.
5. (v. t.) To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience; as, most substances suffer a change when long exposed to air and moisture; to suffer loss or damage.
6. (v. i.) To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.
7. (v. t.) To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.