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Definitions for Suffer

[1] to undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering.
[2] to sustain injury, disadvantage, or loss: One's health suffers from overwork. The business suffers from lack of capital.
[3] to undergo a penalty, as of death: The traitor was made to suffer on the gallows.
[4] to endure pain, disability, death, etc., patiently or willingly.
[5] to undergo, be subjected to, or endure (pain, distress, injury, loss, or anything unpleasant): to suffer the pangs of conscience.
[6] to undergo or experience (any action, process, or condition): to suffer change.
[7] to tolerate or allow: I do not suffer fools gladly.
[8] to undergo or be subjected to (pain, punishment, etc)
[9] (tr) to undergo or experience (anything) to suffer a change of management
[10] (intr) to be set at a disadvantage this author suffers in translation
[11] to be prepared to endure (pain, death, etc) he suffers for the cause of freedom
[12] (tr) archaic to permit (someone to do something) suffer the little children to come unto me
[13] suffer from to be ill with, esp recurrently to be given to he suffers from a tendency to exaggerate

Words related to Suffer

get, experience, hurt, endure, undergo, deteriorate, receive, support, feel, see, accept, sustain, take, have, bleed, encounter, know, brave, pain, droop

Words nearby Suffer

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Origin of Suffer

1200–50; Middle English suff(e)ren < Latin sufferre, equivalent to suf- suf- + ferre to bear1; compare Old French sofrir < Vulgar Latin *sufferīre

Other words from Suffer

suf·fer·a·ble , adjective
suf·fer·a·ble·ness , noun
suf·fer·a·bly , adverb
suf·fer·er , noun
non·suf·fer·a·ble , adjective
non·suf·fer·a·ble·ness , noun
non·suf·fer·a·bly , adverb
out·suf·fer , verb (used with object)
pre·suf·fer , verb
un·suf·fer·a·ble , adjective
un·suf·fer·a·ble·ness , noun
un·suf·fer·a·bly , adverb

Word origin for Suffer

C13: from Old French soffrir, from Latin sufferre, from sub- + ferre to bear

Synonyms for Suffer

deteriorate, endure, experience, get, go through, hurt, undergo, ache, agonize, ail, brave, droop, flag, grieve, languish, pain, sicken, smart, writhe, be affected, be at disadvantage, be convulsed, be handicapped, be impaired, be racked, be wounded, complain of, fall off, feel wretched, have a bad time