Suffer

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To feel pain or distress; sustain loss, injury, harm, or punishment.
  • verb-intransitive. To tolerate or endure evil, injury, pain, or death. See Synonyms at bear1.
  • verb-intransitive. To appear at a disadvantage: "He suffers by comparison with his greater contemporary” ( Albert C. Baugh).
  • v. To undergo or sustain (something painful, injurious, or unpleasant): "Ordinary men have always had to suffer the history their leaders were making” ( Herbert J. Muller).
  • v. To experience; undergo: suffer a change in staff.
  • v. To endure or bear; stand: would not suffer fools.
  • v. To permit; allow: "They were not suffered to aspire to so exalted a position as that of streetcar conductor” ( Edmund S. Morgan).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To undergo hardship.
  • v. To feel pain.
  • v. To have a disease or condition.
  • v. To become worse.
  • v. To endure, undergo.
  • v. To allow.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo.
  • v. To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.
  • v. To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience
  • v. To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.
  • verb-intransitive. To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient.
  • verb-intransitive. To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.
  • verb-intransitive. To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To endure; support bravely or unflinchingly; sustain; bear up under.
  • To be affected by; undergo; be acted on or influenced by; sustain; pass through.
  • To feel or bear (what is painful, disagreeable, or distressing); submit to with distress or grief; undergo: as, to suffer acute bodily pain; to suffer grief of mind.
  • To refrain from hindering; allow; permit; tolerate.
  • To tolerate abstention from.
  • Synonyms To feel, bear, experience, go through.
  • Allow, Permit, Consent to, etc. See allow.
  • To have endurance; bear evils bravely.
  • To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; bear what is distressing or inconvenient.
  • To be injured; sustain loss or damage.
  • To undergo punishment; especially, to be put to death.
  • To allow; permit.
  • To wait; hold out.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. be set at a disadvantage
  • v. undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
  • v. feel pain or be in pain
  • v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant
  • v. experience (emotional) pain
  • v. undergo or be subjected to
  • v. feel physical pain
  • v. be given to
  • v. undergo or suffer
  • v. get worse
  • v. feel unwell or uncomfortable
  • Verb Form
    suffered    suffering    suffers   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    decline    worsen    lean    be given    tend    run    incline    see    experience    go through   
    Cross Reference
    endure    permit   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bear    tolerate    support    allow    sustain    endure    permit    admit    undergo    experience   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bluffer    buffer    duffer    huffer    puffer    rougher    ruffer    snuffer    stuffer    tougher   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    misery    suffering    discomfort    humiliation    torture    misfortune    distress    woe    loneliness    pain