suffering
a state of acute pain
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,383 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 13,273 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a state of acute pain also: agony, excruciation
- misery resulting from affliction also: woe
- psychological suffering also: distress, hurt the death of his wife caused him great distress
- feelings of mental or physical pain also: hurt
adjective
- troubled by pain or loss suffering refugees
- very unhappy; full of misery also: miserable, wretched he felt depressed and miserablea message of hope for suffering humanity
suffering in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The complaint your father is suffering from is one I know well.
The Emperor — Volume 02 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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IV On ocean where the embattled fleets repair, Man, suffering inflictor, sails on sufferance there.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Bini Aru had used this secret many times, but not to cause evil or suffering to others.
The Magic of Oz · L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum · Chapter 1
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The life of the Favorals during these interminable days of anguish and suffering, was that of a hundred thousand other families.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Without protection, save that which innocence gives to every good woman, they went about their work, fearing no assault and suffering none.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1