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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 51Թ 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
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of suffer1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of suffer1
Idioms and Phrases
see not suffer fools gladly .Example Sentences
“John Proctor” initiates a conversation with Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” about the way the suffering of women in this American classic is given painfully short shrift.
The fish once filled the bay, but federal wildlife officials declared the population endangered after determining it had suffered a drastic decline.
Bill Plaschke writes the Lakers have never suffered a more demoralizing playoff exit, but there are still reasons to hope for a title run soon.
"Gamers will suffer most, with little hope of prices decreasing," he said.
McDonald's has suffered its biggest drop in US sales since the height of Covid, a fall that it said was driven by wider concerns about the US economy.
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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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