What's the difference between suffer and worse?

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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
  • (2) To the remaining patients who suffered from severe insomnia, 7-chloro-5-(2-chlorophenyl)-1,3-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one (chlordesmethyldiazepam, 2 mg orally) was administered for 7 consecutive evenings.
  • (3) The occurrence of episodes of desaturation during sleep in patients suffering from chronic airflow obstruction is well known.
  • (4) Ninety-five per cent were suffering from chiasmal compression pre-operatively.
  • (5) Efficacy and tolerability of perorally administered desmopressin were evaluated in 12 adult patients suffering from central diabetes insipidus.
  • (6) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
  • (7) He said the 8.13am train from the French capital to London reached Calais before suffering “network problems”.
  • (8) The results confirm that physical training is clinically effective in patients suffering from claudication.
  • (9) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
  • (10) This paper reports on observations of five families suffering from distinct thrombophilia due to a protein C defect.
  • (11) Huth, a Stoke player for more than five years, has made only one Premier League appearance since suffering a knee injury in November 2013.
  • (12) To treat children suffering from the nephrotic syndrome, use was made of the membrano-stabilizing agents: zaditen that also has an antiallergic action; dimephosphon, a membrano-stabilizer and immunomodulator.
  • (13) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
  • (14) The authors present an analysis of the results of laboratory immunological examination of 52 patients suffering from recurrent respiratory infections.
  • (15) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
  • (16) This paper raises other issues for consideration, including problems associated with HIV testing, confidentiality, informed consent and the dilemmas facing those involved in the treatment of patients suffering from HIV infection.
  • (17) A neonate, with a postconceptual age of 29 weeks, suffered thrombosis of the aorta as a consequence of umbilical artery catheterisation.
  • (18) Instead, we suffer sporadic exhibitions, which they call consultation.
  • (19) Studied were the clinical symptoms manifested by both the pigs exhibiting cannibalism and by those that suffered, following up a number of biochemical indices.
  • (20) The authors have studied the different situations that prompt a request for genetic counseling if different members of the same family suffer from cancer.

Worse


Definition:

  • (compar.) Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense.
  • (n.) Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
  • (n.) That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise.
  • (a.) In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad.
  • (v. t.) To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. See Worst, v.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "What has made that worse is the disingenuous way the force has defended their actions.
  • (2) Wages for the population as a whole are £1,600 a year worse off than five years ago.
  • (3) "The sending off was a joke, and I thought the penalty was even worse," Bruce said.
  • (4) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
  • (5) Their adaptive problems became worse while growing older until the age of 20.
  • (6) One patient had amelioration of his symptoms, 5 experienced no change and in 5 their symptoms became worse.
  • (7) Visual acuity was improved in 77%, was worse in 13%, and unchanged in 10% of eyes.
  • (8) Follow-up studies using radiological methods show worse results (recurrent stones in II: 21.2%, in I: 5.8%, stenosis of EST in II: 6.1%, in I: 3.1%): Late results of EST because of papillary stenosis are still worse compared to those of choledocholithiasis.
  • (9) We wanted to return to Kabul, but the violence there just kept getting worse.
  • (10) Patients with grade 2 carcinoma could be separated into one subgroup with small nuclei (mean nuclear area less than or equal to 95 microns2) having a favorable outcome (5-year survival rate: 100%), and into another subgroup with large nuclei (mean nuclear area greater than 95 microns2) showing a worse prognosis (5-year survival rate: 63.2%) (Mantel-Cox, P = .01).
  • (11) This paper, which draws on the author's experience as chairman of the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), describes what is known about the characteristics of homeless persons and the causes of homelessness, and about the health status of homeless persons, which is often not very good (but not significantly worse, it would appear, than that of other low-income persons).
  • (12) In fact, in some patients the lower-lid wrinkling appears far worse after fat removal.
  • (13) Wearing down women’s resistance has become eroticised – and, worse, normalised.
  • (14) He also noted that an earlier message from another person was far worse.
  • (15) But over-promising has left him in a worse position with all three than he was in before, and with his credibility in tatters.
  • (16) With low grade astrocytomas, survival beyond 4 years was significantly worse (higher death rates) in the group receiving more than 1400 rets.
  • (17) The sensitivity is, now that this is official, it will make things worse.” Like Australia, Canada weathered the financial crash of 2008 well, avoiding the banking crises suffered by the US, UK and the eurozone, instead growing fast on the back of exports of abundant natural resources.
  • (18) "It would be ridiculous to encourage shale gas when in reality its greenhouse gas footprint could be as bad as or worse than coal.
  • (19) During this period, however, the cows were housed in a stable with markedly worse environmental circumstance than those in production stable.
  • (20) With cisapride, 12 patients felt better and three worse (p less than 0.05); physicians judged 11 patients improved and two worse (p less than 0.05).