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# suffering

«suffering» in Mova's school dictionary: **Pain, sadness or difficulty that a person or animal feels** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (suffering, sufferings); verb (-ing form of suffer)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Pain, sadness or difficulty that a person or animal feels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffering/#m1)

2) Feeling pain or having a problem: "She is suffering from a cold." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffering/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life a person is "suffering from" an illness, like flu. In history and religious education, pupils learn about the suffering of people in wars and famines, and how people help. In stories, suffering can make a character stronger or kinder. Phrases: suffering from, end the suffering, pain and suffering.

### examples

- The vet ended the old dog's suffering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffering/#x1)
- He is suffering from hay fever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffering/#x2)
- Charities help reduce the suffering of people after floods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffering/#x3)
- The animals were suffering in the heat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffering/#x4)
- We read about the suffering of soldiers in the war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffering/#x5)
- She is suffering from a bad headache. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffering/#x6)
- The scene of past sufferings revives painful memories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffering/#x7)

### note

As a noun usually uncountable: "much suffering". The verb is "suffer", usually with "from" for illnesses: "suffer from asthma". Do not tease people who are suffering; show kindness and get help.

### In the corpora

- ["Confused", said of an old person by carers, often means suffering from dementia.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/9/)
- [Owning up quickly stops an innocent person suffering any longer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/19/)
- [Buddhism aims to end suffering through wisdom and kindness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «suffering» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffering/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.