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privation
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noun
(= deprivation)
act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
nutritional privation
deprivation of civil rights
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noun
a state of extreme poverty
suffering
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noun
(= agony)
a state of acute pain
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noun
misery resulting from affliction
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noun
(= distress)
psychological suffering
the death of his wife caused him great distress
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noun
feelings of mental or physical pain
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adjective
troubled by pain or loss
suffering refugees
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adjective
(= miserable, wretched)
very unhappy; full of misery
he felt depressed and miserable
a message of hope for suffering humanity
wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages