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suffering English

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suffering

(= agony) a state of acute pain misery resulting from affliction (= distress) psychological suffering the death of his wife caused him great distress feelings of mental or physical pain troubled by pain or loss suffering refugees (= 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

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Simple sentences

My father is suffering from influenza.
I have to -- oh God oh great -- remember such a string of numbers, great famous Archimedes, help the suffering, give him the power, let him recite by heart those famous, and yet for us irritating, ah, numbers of Ludolph!
Tom is suffering from cancer.
Arms industry yelds a profit but also suffering.
War always brings pain and suffering.
Rate of suffering experienced on this planet is enormous.
She is suffering from anorexia.
The more people give up meat, the less suffering there will be on Earth.
Suffering on Earth will subside if we stop fostering it.
There will be no more suffering.
Suffering changes people.
Why is life so full of suffering?
Passion creates suffering.
Blindness is responsible for a staggering toll of poor health, suffering, and loss of dignity and diminution in the quality of lives of people worldwide.
He said he was suffering from a bad headache.
Most developing countries are suffering from overpopulation.
That is why so many people are suffering from famine.
It's been a week, but I'm still suffering from jet lag.
My wife is suffering from pneumonia.
My boss is suffering from a bad cold.
I'm suffering from a bad headache.
I'm still suffering from jet lag.
We are suffering from a severe water shortage this summer.
Death is preferable to such suffering.
Those who are suffering from hunger in Africa need urgent help.
My sister is suffering from a bad cold now.
I am suffering from a bad cold.
Can we find joy in spite of suffering and death?
The number of people suffering from heart disease has increased.

Movie subtitles

What is exactly the truth about your death that makes you endure so much suffering?
I will bring Arang to get rid of my pain and suffering.
In this town, because of the debt with Lord Choi. there isn't just one or two households that are suffering.
No, all those people are not suffering 'cause of you. Your instincts were right.
As if the poisoner was attempting to minimize the dog's suffering.
Florence retired to her bedroom as she was suffering migraines; her father and I were worried about her condition, so we went up to her room.
It is just to accept the suffering for your cause.
Remember my suffering!
Peace lies upon the eternal sea. silently it spreads, rolling out in broad waves, to soothe the world's suffering and strife.
Mother's suffering already.
I don't know what's happened to him, but I know he's suffering. and it's our fault, mine more than yours.
My sweet, why are you suffering so?
My poor, dear, suffering love, be quiet.
That man seems to be suffering the effects of some frightful experience that he relives each time someone approaches him.
No, all those people are not suffering 'cause of you.
Isn't that precisely why you've been suffering all this time?
Oh, Father, do not condemn me. You know the soul of the suffering serfs.
Just the same, I can't bear to think of you suffering.
You're just suffering from lack of sleep.
My husband's been suffering terribly.
I think he's suffering from a nervous shakedown.
I took off as fast as anybody could. that was suffering from broken arches.
You see, all of a sudden, for the past few weeks my husband has been suffering from. Well, I suppose you would call it hallucinations.
It's seeing you like this, suffering.
Doctor Galen is suffering from nervous exhaustion.
I speak to you from a place of pain, from a camp of lepers, in the name of the suffering.
Musashi tastes both suffering and discord.
For all the suffering he brought her.
Soldiers of the Queen, wounded and dying, suffering for their Queen.
Why are you suffering so?
My child is suffering from dysentery.
Is he suffering from something?
Are you suffering?

News and current affairs

The response - massive spending cuts - ensures that unacceptably high levels of unemployment (a vast waste of resources and an oversupply of suffering) will continue, possibly for years.
The nature of suffering around the world hardly justifies this narrow strategy.
The central reason is despairingly simple: women's lives are not valued, and even women themselves perceive their suffering as being unavoidable.
At the moment, Afghanistan's drug lords are prospering, and rural communities are suffering.
Africans suffering from hunger and drought, and indeed poor people everywhere, have a right to ask much more of the US and other rich countries.
If the euro survives, it will come at the price of high unemployment and enormous suffering, especially in the crisis countries.
The pain that Europe, especially its poor and young, is suffering is unnecessary.
First, the debts of the countries suffering from extreme poverty and illness would be forgiven entirely.
After all, the rich are living better than ever, while the rest of American society is suffering.
Second, we should consider how much death and suffering would be avoided by letting such a ruler and his henchmen go free.
Foreign central banks are suffering capital losses on their unthinking investments.
Let us pledge that the rich and powerful should take real actions to help the poor, the weak, and the suffering.
In fact, there are millions of reasons - all of them suffering needlessly - to apply the brakes.
In repeated visits to Argentina, I marveled at how long suffering the Argentineans were; to me, it is more a surprise that unrest took so long to manifest itself, not that street turmoil unseated Argentina's president.
This means that someone - a husband or mother-in-law - had taken the decision not to send the young woman to the hospital, instead keeping her in inhuman suffering for nearly a week.
If real estate prices were to fall dramatically, a chain reaction could occur, taking down big and small investors alike, and over time causing wide suffering to ordinary Africans.
It is not politically correct to attribute any share of very poor countries' suffering to their own decisions.
By any measure, the level of suffering in Syria is shocking.
The ugly truth is that the world's response to this crisis has been shaped by geopolitical interests, not the need to put an end to appalling human suffering.
One relates to the defenders of those suffering such obvious exploitation.

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