What is the meaning of suffering?

noun

• A state of acute pain.
  • synonyms: agony, excruciation
• Misery resulting from affliction.
  • synonyms: woe
• Psychological suffering.
  • usage: "the death of his wife caused him great distress"
  • synonyms: distress, hurt
• Feelings of mental or physical pain.
  • synonyms: hurt

verb

• Undergo or be subjected to.
  • usage: "He suffered the penalty"; "Many saints suffered martyrdom"
  • synonyms: suffer, endure
• Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses. )
  • usage: "She suffered a fracture in the accident"; "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"; "She got a bruise on her leg"; "He got his arm broken in the scuffle"
  • synonyms: suffer, sustain, have, get
• Experience (emotional) pain.
  • usage: "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers"
  • synonyms: suffer
• Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.
  • usage: "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
  • synonyms: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up
• Get worse.
  • usage: "His grades suffered"
  • synonyms: suffer
• Feel pain or be in pain.
  • synonyms: suffer, hurt
• Feel physical pain.
  • usage: "Were you hurting after the accident"
  • synonyms: hurt, ache, suffer
• Feel unwell or uncomfortable.
  • usage: "She is suffering from the hot weather"
  • synonyms: suffer
• Be given to.
  • usage: "She suffers from a tendency to talk too much"
  • synonyms: suffer
• Undergo or suffer.
  • usage: "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate"
  • synonyms: suffer, meet
• Be set at a disadvantage.
  • usage: "This author really suffers in translation"
  • synonyms: suffer, lose

adjective

• Troubled by pain or loss.
  • usage: "suffering refugees"
• Very unhappy; full of misery.
  • usage: "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
  • synonyms: miserable, wretched