Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - misery
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Misery
misery
(miseries) 1. Misery is great unhappiness. All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery 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 misery of their two million fellow countrymen. N-UNCOUNT 3. If someone makes your life a misery, 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 misery. PHRASE: V and life inflect 4. If you put someone out of their misery, you tell them something that they are very anxious to know. (INFORMAL) Please put me out of my misery. How do you do it? PHRASE: V inflects 5. If you put an animal out of its misery, you kill it because it is sick or injured and cannot be cured or healed. = put down PHRASE: V inflects
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noun (plural -eries) Date: 14th century 1. a state of suffering and want that is the result of poverty or affliction 2. a circumstance, thing, or place that causes suffering or discomfort 3. a state of great unhappiness and emotional distress Synonyms: see distress ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. -ies) 1 a wretched state of mind, or of outward circumstances. 2 a thing causing this. 3 colloq. a constantly depressed or discontented person. 4 = MIS Usage RE. Phrases and idioms put out of its etc. misery 1 release (a person, animal, etc.) from suffering or suspense. 2 kill (an animal in pain). Etymology: ME f. OF misere or L miseria (as MISER) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. страдание; горе; мучение to put smb. out of misery —- положить конец чьим-л. страданиям (мучениям), убить кого-л. из милосердия 2. pl. невзгоды, несчастья; бедствия; напасти 3. физическая боль, страдание general misery —- общее недомогание to suffer (to be in) misery from toothache —- страдать от зубной боли 4. нищета, бедность to live in misery and want —- жить в безысходной нищете to reduce smb. to misery —- привести кого-л. к нищете 5. разг. см. 6. разг. зануда, нытик ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) страдание 2) usu. pl. невзгоды, несчастья 3) нищета, бедность 4) нытик Syn: agony, anguish, discomfort, distress, passion, torment, torture Ant: happiness, pleasure ...Англо-русский словарь
6.
~ n 1 great suffering or discomfort, caused for example by being very poor or very sick (the awful shanty-towns, so full of human misery) + of (The cold increased the misery of the retreating army.) 2 great unhappiness (Her face was a picture of misery.) 3 make sb's life a misery to cause so much trouble for someone that they cannot enjoy their life (Competitive mothers can make their daughters' lives a misery.) 4 put sth/sb out of their misery a) informal to make someone stop feeling worried, especially by telling them something they are waiting to hear (Go on, put them out of their misery and announce the winner.) b) to kill an animal in order to end its suffering 5 BrE spoken someone who is always complaining and never enjoys anything (Don't be such a misery. | misery guts (=a name for someone who is like this)) (You don't want to be like old misery guts over there.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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