くるし
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, む, intransitive)
1. to suffer; to groan; to be worried
Pitch accent
るし
Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
to be unable to understand; to baffle one's understanding; to be beyond one's comprehension
to suffer from hunger
to writhe in agony
Examples (25 in total)
To live is to suffer.
He was in pain.
He is suffering from a headache.
I'm suffering from chronic constipation.
He is suffering from a toothache.
She suffers from a chronic illness.
People are suffering from the contamination of the water supply.
The entire crew was afflicted with food poisoning.
Tom suffered from migraine headaches for years.
I'm still suffering from jet lag.
Most developing countries are suffering from overpopulation.
Why are you happy when someone else suffers?
We all suffer from it to some degree.
The slaves suffered cruel oppression.
The number of people suffering from AIDS has increased.
The feeble patient is suffering from stomach cancer.
I can't bear that she should suffer so.
The number of people suffering from heart disease has increased.
We are suffering from a severe water shortage this summer.
That is why so many people are suffering from famine.
Many people are suffering from the lack of food.
For 32 years, I've been living in suffering!
Not only were we hungry, but we were also suffering from thirst.
Humanity has suffered more from war in this century than ever before.
According to a survey, 1 billion people are suffering from poverty in the world.