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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
The leader of the Roman Catholic Church died on Easter Monday aged 88, after suffering a stroke.
His address spoke of the suffering of both the Palestinians and the Israelis.
But for some, the lesson of history is that Mexico may again suffer the fate of being neighbor to one of the most powerful countries in the world.
Yet through those phone calls, the pope came to understand the suffering of Gaza residents, Christians and Muslims alike, said George Anton, head of the Emergency Response Committee for the Catholic Church in Gaza.
The court heard it was the unanimous view of three very experienced consultant forensic psychiatrists that she was suffering a psychotic episode of paranoid schizophrenia at the time.
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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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