Suffering

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Suffer.

II. Suffering ·adj Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, ·etc.

III. Suffering ·noun The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.