(~s)
Suffering is serious pain which someone feels in their body or their mind.
It has caused terrible ~ to animals...
His many novels have portrayed the ~s of his race.
= torment
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl
see also long-~
(~s)
Suffering is serious pain which someone feels in their body or their mind.
It has caused terrible ~ to animals...
His many novels have portrayed the ~s of his race.
= torment
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl
see also long-~
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012