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.