suffering
Origin of suffering
1Other words for suffering
Other words from suffering
- suf·fer·ing·ly, adverb
- un·suf·fer·ing, adjective
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How to use suffering in a sentence
This outcome would prolong the pandemic and its subsequent death and suffering.
Keeping older folks out of COVID-19 vaccine trials hurts everyone | Kat Eschner | October 1, 2020 | Popular-ScienceAs American adults faced economic hardships brought on by the pandemic this year, a real-time payment system—which many countries around the world have already instituted—could have saved money and prevented suffering, Klein says.
“The city is obligated, I think, to take some time to take stock of how much harm this caused – and then take measures to remedy or compensate people for that suffering,” he said.
5 Big Questions About How SDPD Used the Seditious Language Law and What’s Next | Sara Libby | September 21, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoPleasure is good and suffering is bad because Reality is essentially directed toward the former and away from the latter.
The Universe Knows Right from Wrong - Issue 89: The Dark Side | Philip Goff | September 9, 2020 | NautilusWhile we seldom stop to think about it, much of the suffering faced by humanity is brought about by the systemic foe that is the Work Crisis.
The Global Work Crisis: Automation, the Case Against Jobs, and What to Do About It | Peter Xing | August 6, 2020 | Singularity Hub
In the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped.
Phylicia Rashad and the Cult of Cosby Truthers | Stereo Williams | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe program—weirdly—is now under the umbrella of ABC News, and is suffering from flat ratings and an aging demographic.
It seemed gratuitous and counter-intuitive in a story that had already inflicted more than enough suffering.
Instead, most of the suffering species ate insects on the forest floor.
Another man chimes in: “Today we are living at the edge of suffering.”
In the year of misery, of agony and suffering in general he had endured, he had settled upon one theory.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxThere is, perhaps, in this childish suffering often something more than the sense of being homeless and outcast.
Children's Ways | James SullyThey are unquestionably penitent now; but then, you know, they have the recollection of very recent suffering fresh upon them.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2) | Charles DickensBecause if that was to atone for man's sin, it was needless, as God could have forgiven man without Himself suffering.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordThe General in command of the station was a feeble old man, suffering from senile decay.
The Red Year | Louis Tracy
British Dictionary definitions for suffering
/ (ˈsʌfərɪŋ, ˈsʌfrɪŋ) /
the pain, misery, or loss experienced by a person who suffers
the state or an instance of enduring pain, etc
Derived forms of suffering
- sufferingly, adverb
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