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Meaning of suffering

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  suffering
      adj 1: troubled by pain or loss; "suffering refugees"
      2: very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and
         miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity";
         "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" [syn:
         {miserable}, {suffering}, {wretched}]
      n 1: a state of acute pain [syn: {agony}, {suffering},
           {excruciation}]
      2: misery resulting from affliction [syn: {suffering}, {woe}]
      3: psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him
         great distress" [syn: {distress}, {hurt}, {suffering}]
      4: feelings of mental or physical pain [syn: {suffering},
         {hurt}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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