What is another word for "suffering"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "suffering": accident, adversity, and, awry, bad, badness, bale, bane, blow, box, bruise, buffet, calamity, casualty, catastrophe, cause, cost, crying, damage, demon, destruction, deterioration, devil, disadvantage, disadvantageous, disaster, disastrous, disservice, doer, drawback, evil, field, flesh, flood, foul, gash, grievance, harm, heir, hurt.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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