Suffering and Tormented

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Suffering adjective - Troubled by pain or loss.

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Tormented and suffering are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tormented" instead an adjective "Suffering".

Nearby Words: suffer, sufferance, suffered, sufferer

Tormented adjective - Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain.

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Suffering and tormented are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Suffering" instead an adjective "Tormented".

Nearby Words: torment, tormenting, tormentor

Her arch-nemesis Captain Valor just sees her as an evil megalomaniac, but his alternative self Milo manages to recognize that beneath it all she's a broken, lonely, psychologically tormented and suffering woman.

Source: Put Them All Out of My Misery
The second half is much darker as it deals with themes of human suffering, sacrifice, and faith, as well as Kane's tormented past.

Source: Film / The Ninth Configuration
All of them are also cursed with greater than human empathy, so they are eternally tormented by their inability to lessen the suffering of others.

Source: Flying Dutchman

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