An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SUFFERING
miserable, suffering, wretched
(adjective) very unhappy; full of misery; “he felt depressed and miserable”; “a message of hope for suffering humanity”; “wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages”
suffering
(adjective) troubled by pain or loss; “suffering refugees”
suffering, hurt
(noun) feelings of mental or physical pain
distress, hurt, suffering
(noun) psychological suffering; “the death of his wife caused him great distress”
agony, suffering, excruciation
(noun) a state of acute pain
suffering, woe
(noun) misery resulting from affliction
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
suffering
Experiencing pain.
Synonyms
• (experiencing pain): in pain
Noun
suffering (countable and uncountable, plural sufferings)
The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
Verb
suffering
present participle of suffer
Source: Wiktionary
Suf"fer*ing, n.
Definition: 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. "Souls in sufferings tried." Keble.
Suf"fer*ing, a.
Definition: Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.
– Suf"fer*ing*ly, adv.
SUFFER
Suf"fer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suffered; p. pr. & vb. n. Suffering.] Etym: [OE. suffren, soffren, OF. sufrir, sofrir, F. souffrir, (assumed) LL. sofferire, for L. sufferre; sub under + ferre to bear, akin to E. bear. See Bear to support.]
1. To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.
2. To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under. Our spirit and strength entire, Strongly to suffer and support our pains. Milton.
3. To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience; as, most substances suffer a change when long exposed to air and moisture; to suffer loss or damage. If your more ponderous and settled project May suffer alteration. Shak.
4. To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate. Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. Lev. xix. 17. I suffer them to enter and possess. Milton.
Syn.
– To permit; bear; endure; support; sustain; allow; admit; tolerate. See Permit.
Suf"fer, v. i.
1. To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient; as, we suffer from pain, sickness, or sorrow; we suffer with anxiety. O well for him whose will is strong! He suffers, but he will not suffer long. Tennyson.
2. To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death. The father was first condemned to suffer upon a day appointed, and the son afterwards the day following. Clarendon.
3. To be injured; to sustain loss or damage. Public business suffers by private infirmities. Sir W. Temple.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COVERT
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
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