The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
"The Japanese imperialists enforced the harshest colonial rule in history over Korea, bringing unspeakably horrible misfortune and sufferings and disasters to the Korean nation," said a spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
present participle and gerund of suffer
By surface analysis, suffer + -ing.
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