饱受 is formed from the character 饱, meaning "full" or "satiated", which combines the food radical 饣 with the phonetic component 包, and the character 受, meaning "to suffer" or "to receive", originating from a pictographic depiction of hands giving and receiving. In this compound, 饱 acts as an intensifier modifying 受, resulting in the meaning "to suffer fully" or "to endure thoroughly", thus creating a verb that denotes experiencing something, typically adversity, to a complete extent.