Russian-English translations for мука

• anguish
• crucifixion
  Rome used crucifixions as a deterrent, and standard for the vilest crimes, such as slave rebellion.
  The suspects hostile interrogation amounted to a public crucifixion.
• farina
• flour
  wood flour, produced by sanding wood
  mustard flour
  that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no murnurs walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flours be planted on my grave. — Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
• flour; meal
• heartbreak
• martyrdom
• meal
  Breakfast is the morning meal, lunch is the noon meal, and dinner, or supper, is the evening meal
• ordeal
• pain
  The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
  I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
  In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
• throe
• torment
  He was bitter from the torments of the divorce system.
  The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
• torture
  Using large dogs to attack bound, hand-cuffed prisoners is clearly torture
  In every war there are acts of torture that cause the world to shudder
  People confess to anything under torture