(miseries)
1.
Misery is great unhappiness.
All that money brought nothing but sadness and ~ and tragedy.
...the miseries of his youth.
N-VAR
2.
Misery is the way of life and unpleasant living conditions of people who are very poor.
A tiny, educated elite profited from the ~ of their two million fellow countrymen.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If someone makes your life a ~, they behave in an unpleasant way towards you over a period of time and make you very unhappy.
...the gangs of kids who make our lives a ~.
PHRASE: V and life inflect
4.
If you put someone out of their ~, you tell them something that they are very anxious to know. (INFORMAL)
Please put me out of my ~. How do you do it?
PHRASE: V inflects
5.
If you put an animal out of its ~, you kill it because it is sick or injured and cannot be cured or healed.
= put down
PHRASE: V inflects