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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:
- to undergo or experience (any action, process, or condition):
to suffer change.
- to tolerate or allow:
I do not suffer fools gladly.
Synonyms: , ,
suffer
/ ˈʌə /
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
- ˈܴڴڱ, noun
Other Word Forms
- ܴf·· adjective
- ܴf···ness noun
- ܴf·· adverb
- ܴf· noun
- non·ܴf·· adjective
- non·ܴf···ness noun
- non·ܴf·· adverb
- dzܳȴܴf verb (used with object)
- ·ܴf verb
- un·ܴf·· adjective
- un·ܴf···ness noun
- un·ܴf·· 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
Both Mr and Mrs Sebastian, who are now separated, said they had suffered with post traumatic stress disorder since her death.
She was taken to hospital after suffering extensive facial trauma and multiple fractures, where she died the following day.
Throughout the year she suffered a continuous run of viral infections and colds.
We are made invisible by the editorial decisions of people who find our lives too political, too inconvenient — whose audiences have accepted our suffering as unremarkable.
“He’s made some mistakes and the people around him are suffering because of it. Not only can he lose his wife, played by the wonderful Deanna Allison, but he can also lose his freedom.”
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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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