SUFFERING Synonyms

• a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder

• emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid

• a somatic sensation of acute discomfort

• something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness

• cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed

• cause emotional anguish or make miserable

• a state of misfortune or affliction

• a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event

• a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity

• a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health

• a cause of great suffering and distress

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

• a state of acute pain

• the state of being tense and feeling pain

• an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress

• psychological suffering

• a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)

• extreme physical pain

• the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim

• bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

• cause mental pain to

• (poetry) painful grief

• intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)

• something that causes great unhappiness

• a state of misfortune or affliction

• something hard to endure

• something that causes or entails suffering

• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

• a feeling of intense unhappiness

• an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement

• sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

• something that causes great unhappiness

• the state of being sad

• feel grief

• unbearable physical pain

• extreme mental distress

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

• a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

• a severe affliction

• the act of harassing someone

• torment emotionally or mentally

• treat cruelly

• subject to torture

• extreme mental distress

• unbearable physical pain

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

• the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason

• torment emotionally or mentally

• subject to torture

• the act of testing something

• trying something to find out about it

• the act of undergoing testing

• (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law

• (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications

• an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event

• an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event

• misery resulting from affliction

• intense mournfulness

• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

• the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant

• the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry

• massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws

• an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price

• have

• maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)

• cause to be born

• put up with something or somebody unpleasant

• move while holding up or supporting

• bring forth

• take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person

• contain or hold; have within

• bring in

• have on one's person

• behave in a certain manner

• have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices

• support or hold in a certain manner

• be pregnant with

• put up with something or somebody unpleasant

• face and withstand with courage

• continue to live and avoid dying

• undergo or be subjected to

• last and be usable

• persist for a specified period of time

• continue to exist