Words similar to suffering

Example sentences for: suffering

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But such obtuse behavior, even if legal, causes suffering, and it's worth talking about away from the blunt, guilty-or-innocent logic of the law.
But these religions typically hold out the prospect of an end to suffering, either for individuals or for the species, although they then cease to be humans.
In terminal sedation the intention is to relieve intolerable suffering, the procedure is to use a sedating drug for symptom control, and the successful outcome is the alleviation of distress.
September 11, 2001, was a day of unprecedented shock and suffering in the history of the United States.
I know what you mean about the Michael Clarke Duncan character in The Green Mile . His function is essentially to absorb and process white pain, suffering, disease, and guilt, which he does visibly--which is a novel change from the decades of films in which black characters have done the same thing invisibly (is there much difference between what Duncan does for Hanks here and what Poitier did for Steiger in In the Heat of the Night ?).