suffering

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

suffering

1. Experiencing pain. ^syn.

Synonyms

• (experiencing pain ^def.): in pain

Translations

experiencing pain

• Czech: trpící (cs)
• Finnish: kärsivä, tuskissaan oleva
• French: souffrance (fr), douleur (fr)
• German: leidend (de)
• Icelandic: þjáður (is) m

• Portuguese: sofrendo (pt)
• Romanian: suferință (ro) f
• Spanish: sufrido (es)
• Swedish: lidande (sv)

Noun

suffering (plural sufferings)

1. The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
   • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, Guardian:

     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.

Translations

condition

• Arabic: معاناة (ar) (maʿānāa) f
• Bulgarian: страдание (bg) (stradánie) n 
• Catalan: patiment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 苦痛 (cmn) (kǔtòng)

• Czech: utrpení (cs) n
• Dutch: lijden (nl) n
• Esperanto: sufero (eo)
• Ewe: fukpekpe
• Finnish: kärsimys (fi)
• French: souffrance (fr) f
• German: Leiden (de) n
• Greek: βάσανο (el) (vasano) n 

  Ancient: κόπος m

• Hungarian: szenvedés (hu)

• Italian: sofferenza (it) f
• Japanese: 苦痛 (ja) (くつう, kutsū), 苦しみ (ja) (くるしみ, kurushimi)
• Lithuanian: kentėjimas (lt) m, kančia (lt) f
• Polish: cierpienie (pl)
• Portuguese: sofrimento (pt)
• Romanian: suferință (ro) f, păs (ro)
• Russian: страдание (ru) (stradánije) n 
• Sanskrit: दुःख (sa) (duḥkha)
• Spanish: sufrimiento (es) m
• Swedish: lidande (sv) c
• Tamil: வேத்னைப்படுதல் (ta)
• Tibetan: སྡུག་བསྔལ་བརྒྱད། (bo)
• Vietnamese: khổ (vi)
• Welsh: dioddefaint (cy) m

Verb

suffering

1. Present participle of suffer.