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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 yvlog 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
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of suffer1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of suffer1
Idioms and Phrases
see not suffer fools gladly .Example Sentences
She and her neighbours are among millions of Spaniards who are suffering the consequences of a housing crisis caused by spiralling rental costs.
But do those possibilities negate the benevolence of trying to get the mushroom to people who need it, those who don’t deserve to suffer the ravages of disease?
Other imported foods found on the countertops in many US kitchens could suffer a similar fate, especially those coming from European Union nations, who will all be hit by a 20% tariff.
They say police have "broad powers to deal with offences where unnecessary suffering and injury is inflicted on wildlife, including cases involving the misuse of catapults".
P now suffers from severe dystonic cerebral palsy, is effectively blind, has an intellectual disability, has epilepsy, can only communicate by crying and cannot be comforted when crying.
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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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