Suffer

Definition:

  • (v. t.) To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.
  • (v. t.) To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.
  • (v. t.) To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience; as, most substances suffer a change when long exposed to air and moisture; to suffer loss or damage.
  • (v. t.) To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.
  • (v. i.) To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient; as, we suffer from pain, sickness, or sorrow; we suffer with anxiety.
  • (v. i.) To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.
  • (v. i.) To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.

Compare suffer with other words:

snuffer vs. suffer

suffer vs. surfer

buffer vs. suffer

guffer vs. suffer

encounter vs. suffer

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puffer vs. suffer

huffer vs. suffer

duffer vs. suffer

luffer vs. suffer

suffer vs. torment

differ vs. suffer

suffer vs. take

suffer vs. toil

subject vs. suffer

grief vs. suffer

catch vs. suffer

mourn vs. suffer

damage vs. suffer

patible vs. suffer

passible vs. suffer

afflict vs. suffer

annoy vs. suffer

show vs. suffer

suffer vs. torture

suffer vs. tolerate

display vs. suffer

beteem vs. suffer

suffer vs. sufferer

comforter vs. suffer

suffer vs. sufferable

dree vs. suffer

suffer vs. thole

purgatory vs. suffer

changeableness vs. suffer

stew vs. suffer

suffer vs. suffocate

suffer vs. sustain

starvation vs. suffer

insufferable vs. suffer

suffer vs. suffering

endure vs. suffer

suffer vs. worse

disease vs. suffer

pain vs. suffer

feel vs. suffer

hardship vs. suffer

suffer vs. undergo

euthanasia vs. suffer

lament vs. suffer

concede vs. suffer

receive vs. suffer

rack vs. suffer

anguish vs. suffer

allow vs. suffer

suffer vs. violence

doomed vs. suffer

punish vs. suffer

bill vs. suffer

impassible vs. suffer

pass vs. suffer

have vs. suffer

fit vs. suffer

ail vs. suffer

martyr vs. suffer

aby vs. suffer

abide vs. suffer