Tra từ misery - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

mis·ery [misery miseries] BrE [ˈmɪzəri] NAmE [ˈmɪzəri] noun (pl. mis·eries)
1. uncountable great suffering of the mind or body
Syn: ↑distress
•Fame brought her nothing but misery.
2. uncountable very poor living conditions
Syn: ↑poverty
•The vast majority of the population lives in utter misery.
3. countable something that causes great suffering of mind or body
•the miseries of unemployment
4. countable (BrE, informal)a person who is always unhappy and complaining
•Don't be such an old misery!
•Old misery guts here doesn't want to go out.
Idioms: ↑make somebody's life a misery ▪ put an animal/a bird out of its misery ▪ ↑put somebody out of their misery

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French miserie, from Latin miseria, from miser ‘wretched’.

Example Bank:
•He was too wrapped in misery to reply.
•Her misery was made complete when she was separated from her children.
•His constant criticism made her life a misery.
•I sank deeper into my misery.
•In the end we asked the vet to put the creature out of its misery= kill it humanely.
•In the end we asked the vet to put the poor creature out of its misery.
•Oh, put her out of her misery— tell her who won.
•The giant-killers heaped more misery on the home team.
•The money brought him nothing but misery.
•This financial blow heaps more misery on the community.
•This phobia can cause untold misery for the sufferer.
•War has now added to the misery of these starving people.
•men who suffer the misery of unemployment
•the country's economic misery
•the sheer misery of homelessness
•ways to alleviate human misery
•My old boss used to make my life a misery.
•The bad news had plunged him into abject misery.