Usually means: Experiencing pain, distress, or hardship.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word suffering:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. suffering: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. suffering: Merriam-Webster
  3. suffering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. suffering: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. suffering: Collins English Dictionary
  6. suffering: Vocabulary.com
  7. Suffering, suffering: Wordnik
  8. suffering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. suffering: Wiktionary
  10. suffering: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. suffering: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. suffering: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. suffering: Dictionary.com
  14. suffering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Suffering, The Suffering (audio drama), The Suffering (disambiguation), The Suffering (game), The Suffering (video game), The Suffering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Suffering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. suffering: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. suffering: Rhymezone
  19. suffering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. suffering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. suffering: FreeDictionary.org
  22. suffering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. suffering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. suffering: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. suffering: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Suffering: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suffering: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Suffering, The Suffering, suffering: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See suffer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.
noun:  The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.

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