Suffering vs Defacement - What's the difference?
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Experiencing pain.(jump)
The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
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, date=December 14
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, title=Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave
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An act of defacing]]; an instance of visibly marring or [[disfigure, disfiguring something.
An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.
(heraldry, vexillology) A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.
As nouns the difference between suffering and defacement
is that suffering is the condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress while defacement is an act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.As an adjective suffering
is experiencing pain.{{jump|experiencing pain}} singular.As a verb suffering
is present participle of lang=en.suffering
English
Adjective
(head)Synonyms
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Verb
(head)defacement
English
Noun
(en noun)- Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.
- The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.