suffering
//ˈsʌfəɹɪŋ//
Forms
- Plural
- sufferings
Definitions
1.Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.
- 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.
- Her last night was very suffering, the anodyne she took gave her no relief, and for the first time she lay till near noon.
1.The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
1.present participle and gerund of suffer
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4021
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
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Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Italic *ferō
Latin ferō
Latin suffero
Latin sufferre
Vulgar Latin *sufferīre
Old French suffrirbor.
Middle English suffren
English suffer