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suffer
1 pain and suffering 2 experiencing suffering see also ILLNESS
1 pain and suffering - the unpleasant feeling that you have when your body has been hurt or when you are ill: pain (noun C/U); adjective: painful a terrible pain ◎ She has to put up with a great deal of pain. ◎ a painful operation - physical harm: injury (noun C/U) I had serious injuries to my chest and head. ※ more on pain and injury PAIN, INJURY - unhappiness that you feel because sth bad has happened or because sb has been unkind to you: pain (noun U); adjective: painful She experienced a lot of pain as a result of her marriage breaking up. ◎ pain and suffering ◎ a painful experience - physical or mental pain: suffering (noun U) - something that hurts your feelings is hurtful That was a really hurtful thing to say. - difficulties or problems, for example because you do not have enough money: hardship (noun C/U) It was not a serious hardship to go without meat for a few days. ◎ Anna's had a lot of hardship in her life. - great unhappiness or hardship: misery (noun U) - a situation which is very unpleasant, painful or miserable: (informal) hell (noun U) The weekend was absolute hell. - unpleasant or unhappy: hard a hard life ◎ a hard day - too unpleasant or painful for you to accept: unbearable (adverb unbearably), intolerable (adverb intolerably) It was an unbearably painful experience. ◎ an intolerable situation
2 experiencing suffering - to experience sth unpleasant: suffer (sth/from sth) The company has suffered huge losses over the past two years. ◎ People are suffering from the effects of atmospheric pollution. - to cause sb/sth physical or emotional pain: hurt* (sb/sth) Stop it - you're hurting me! ◎ What he said to me really hurt. - to have a difficult or unpleasant experience: undergo* sth, go* through sth, (formal) endure sth to undergo an operation ◎ I hope I never have to go through anything like that again - it was one of the worst experiences of my life. - to suffer sth unpleasant and not complain about it: put* up with sth So I said I'm just not going to put up with it any more. - to cause sb to undergo sth difficult or painful: (informal) put* sb through sth The treatment is painful - let's hope they don't put him through anything like that. - able to put up with sth without complaining or getting angry: patient; noun (U): patience He must have had a lot of patience to put up with it for so long. - to have difficulties at work or with other people: have a hard time I've been having a really hard time at work. - to make sb's life unhappy: (informal) give* sb a hard time His teacher's giving him a bit of a hard time at present. - to suffer for a mistake or for sth you have done wrong: pay* for sth, pay* the penalty for sth I knew that I would have to pay for what I'd done. - what you suffer in order to obtain sth else: cost (noun U) She took on a difficult job at great cost to her own health. - a person or animal that is injured, hurt or killed by sb/sth: victim victims of racist attacks ◎ The victim's body was found in a ditch.
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