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when someone experiences pain or unpleasant emotions in English:

1. suffering suffering


If he had given up smoking then, he might not be suffering from such a disease.
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.
suffering from
I cannot imagine what suffering has she gone through with her disease.
Among the people of the colonies suffering under Earth's tyranny a force emerges intending to overthrow the status quo through terrorism.
Suffering from terminal cancer, he was thrown out of a certain veteran hospital in New York three times because he adamantly rejected blood transfusions.
Distrust of people, not to mention hate, is the root of human suffering.
My wrist and forearm hurt, I think I might be suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome.
We must not ignore populations suffering under misgovernment.
Suffering is the price of all good things in the world.
Of course, they are suffering from terrible working conditions such as low wages and arbitrary layoffs, as well as from various forms of discrimination.
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.
There are many countries that are suffering unemployment. In other words, there are many young people that are not guaranteed a future and are late for the train called life.
Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
We are living in fear, we are suffering, we are not enjoying the sun and flowers, we are not enjoying our childhood.