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suffer
[ suhf-er ]
verb (used without object)
- to undergo or feel pain or distress:
The patient is still suffering.
- to sustain injury, disadvantage, or loss:
One's health suffers from overwork. The business suffers from lack of capital.
- to undergo a penalty, as of death:
The traitor was made to suffer on the gallows.
- to endure pain, disability, death, etc., patiently or willingly.
verb (used with object)
- to undergo, be subjected to, or endure (pain, distress, injury, loss, or anything unpleasant):
to suffer the pangs of conscience.
Synonyms: sustain
- to undergo or experience (any action, process, or condition):
to suffer change.
- to tolerate or allow:
I do not suffer fools gladly.
suffer
/ ˈsʌfə /
verb
- to undergo or be subjected to (pain, punishment, etc)
- tr to undergo or experience (anything)
to suffer a change of management
- intr to be set at a disadvantage
this author suffers in translation
- to be prepared to endure (pain, death, etc)
he suffers for the cause of freedom
- archaic.tr to permit (someone to do something)
suffer the little children to come unto me
- suffer from
- to be ill with, esp recurrently
- to be given to
he suffers from a tendency to exaggerate
Usage
Derived Forms
- ˈsufferer, noun
Other Words From
- suffer·a·ble adjective
- suffer·a·ble·ness noun
- suffer·a·bly adverb
- suffer·er noun
- non·suffer·a·ble adjective
- non·suffer·a·ble·ness noun
- non·suffer·a·bly adverb
- outsuffer verb (used with object)
- pre·suffer verb
- un·suffer·a·ble adjective
- un·suffer·a·ble·ness noun
- un·suffer·a·bly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of suffer1
Word History and Origins
Origin of suffer1
Idioms and Phrases
see not suffer fools gladly .Example Sentences
If we were to laugh, it would never be at the expense of anyone who was suffering.
I’ve suffered from lower-back problems for years, and I’m so tight that I scream out loud when I try to touch my toes.
Let’s say you’re suffering from deep depression, and you call a doctor’s office.
If you’re someone whose extremities suffer in the cold, think about investing in hand warmers.
We have been suffering a lot, so we need people to work with us, with our language translated for us.
I suffer from no delusion that the justice system treats black and white equally.
How does it happen that citizens of modest means suffer as public sector unions gain?
“One-third of South Asians and more than half of all Sub-Saharan Africans suffer from malnutrition or undernutrition,” he writes.
The birds are debeaked, suffer ulcers, and terrible feet conditions.
He was instructed several times to abuse the kids, he says, or he would suffer the abuse.
We suffer, nearly all of us, from a lack of quantitative grasp and from an imperfect grasp of form.
My mother opposed her vow to his; not to suffer her child to leave her, till the time of her being professed.
They will try to compel you to confession; and, though you are blameless, you will suffer the cruelest ordeal of transgression.
Is there any earthly father who would allow his children to suffer as God allows Man to suffer?
In that case, Valerie, you shall suffer no constraint; you shall continue here as you have done.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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