Tra từ suffer - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

1 pain and suffering
2 experiencing suffering
see also ILLNESS

1 pain and suffering
- the unpleasant feeling that you have when your body has been hurt or when you are ill: pain (noun C/U); adjective: painful
a terrible pain ◎ She has to put up with a great deal of pain. ◎ a painful operation
- physical harm: injury (noun C/U)
I had serious injuries to my chest and head.
※ more on pain and injury PAIN, INJURY
- unhappiness that you feel because sth bad has happened or because sb has been unkind to you: pain (noun U); adjective: painful
She experienced a lot of pain as a result of her marriage breaking up. ◎ pain and suffering ◎ a painful experience
- physical or mental pain: suffering (noun U)
- something that hurts your feelings is hurtful
That was a really hurtful thing to say.
- difficulties or problems, for example because you do not have enough money: hardship (noun C/U)
It was not a serious hardship to go without meat for a few days. ◎ Anna's had a lot of hardship in her life.
- great unhappiness or hardship: misery (noun U)
- a situation which is very unpleasant, painful or miserable: (informal) hell (noun U)
The weekend was absolute hell.
- unpleasant or unhappy: hard
a hard life ◎ a hard day
- too unpleasant or painful for you to accept: unbearable (adverb unbearably), intolerable (adverb intolerably)
It was an unbearably painful experience. ◎ an intolerable situation

2 experiencing suffering
- to experience sth unpleasant: suffer (sth/from sth)
The company has suffered huge losses over the past two years. ◎ People are suffering from the effects of atmospheric pollution.
- to cause sb/sth physical or emotional pain: hurt* (sb/sth)
Stop it - you're hurting me! ◎ What he said to me really hurt.
- to have a difficult or unpleasant experience: undergo* sth, go* through sth, (formal) endure sth
to undergo an operation ◎ I hope I never have to go through anything like that again - it was one of the worst experiences of my life.
- to suffer sth unpleasant and not complain about it: put* up with sth
So I said I'm just not going to put up with it any more.
- to cause sb to undergo sth difficult or painful: (informal) put* sb through sth
The treatment is painful - let's hope they don't put him through anything like that.
- able to put up with sth without complaining or getting angry: patient; noun (U): patience
He must have had a lot of patience to put up with it for so long.
- to have difficulties at work or with other people: have a hard time
I've been having a really hard time at work.
- to make sb's life unhappy: (informal) give* sb a hard time
His teacher's giving him a bit of a hard time at present.
- to suffer for a mistake or for sth you have done wrong: pay* for sth, pay* the penalty for sth
I knew that I would have to pay for what I'd done.
- what you suffer in order to obtain sth else: cost (noun U)
She took on a difficult job at great cost to her own health.
- a person or animal that is injured, hurt or killed by sb/sth: victim
victims of racist attacks ◎ The victim's body was found in a ditch.