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беда́ — meaning in English

Beda

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English meaning

  • adversity noun Difficult or unfortunate circumstances; hardship.
  • calamity noun A serious event that causes great damage, suffering, or loss.
  • disaster noun A sudden event, natural or man-made, that causes serious damage, loss of life, or destruction.
  • distress noun Serious pain, suffering, or worry, especially of an urgent kind.
  • misery noun A state of deep unhappiness, suffering, or distress.
  • misfortune noun Bad luck, or an unlucky event.
  • plague noun A deadly, fast-spreading disease, especially historically the bubonic plague.
  • scourge noun A whip, especially one with several lashes, historically used to punish or torture.
  • toil noun Hard, exhausting work.
  • tragedy noun A serious play or story in which the main character comes to ruin, often through a personal flaw or fate.
  • tribulation noun Any adversity; a trying period or event.
  • trouble noun A difficult, worrying, or dangerous situation or problem.

Senses

беда́ is used for these senses in English:

  • Bede An English monk, historian and theologian from Northumbria who lived from c. 673 to 753, commonly known as the Venerable Bede.
  • adversity (uncountable) The state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity.
  • adversity (countable) An event that is adverse; calamity.
  • calamity The distress that results from some disaster.
  • disaster An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.
  • distress A cause of such discomfort.
  • distress Serious danger.
  • in the soup (slang, idiomatic) In trouble.

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