The condition of one who suffers; the bearing of pain or distress, The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; also, pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred, The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred, adjective_ Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc., very unhappy; full of misery, Experiencing pain. syn, verb_ Present participle of suffer