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- pronunciation:
- suh
f
 r
- parts of speech:
- intransitive verb, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
suffers, suffering, suffered |
| definition 1: |
to experience pain, misfortune, or distress.
The wounded soldiers suffered greatly without medical attention or relief for pain.Food was in short supply, and the poorest citizens suffered the most.He's been suffering with his arthritis for years.- synonyms:
- anguish, hurt
- similar words:
- ache, agonize, ail, grieve, languish, pain, pay, trouble
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| definition 2: |
to undergo injury, loss, or deterioration.
The plants suffered during the cold spell.Her skating performance suffered in the months after her injury.Local businesses suffered once the large chain store opened.- synonyms:
- deteriorate
- antonyms:
- benefit
- similar words:
- decline, drop off, fall off, lose
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| definition 3: |
to receive punishment.
His crime was great, and he suffered for it.- similar words:
- answer, pay, take the rap
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| definition 4: |
to experience (physical ailments) and have pain or distress as a result.
She frequently suffers from migraine headaches. |
| related words: |
groan, rot, sorrow |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to endure or experience.
She suffered the loss of her husband during the war.His father suffered a heart attack last fall.- synonyms:
- endure, experience, sustain, undergo
- similar words:
- accept, bear, encounter, tolerate
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| definition 2: |
to tolerate.
I can't suffer these people who have nothing better to do than gossip.She could no longer suffer the abuse of her husband, and she made up her mind to leave.- synonyms:
- abide, bear, brook, endure, stand, stomach, tolerate
- similar words:
- accept, sustain, take, withstand
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| definition 3: |
to allow; permit.
They kindly suffered me to stay with them.- synonyms:
- allow, let, permit
- similar words:
- authorize, concede, empower, enable, sanction
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| related words: |
bemoan, brave, experience, get, labor, receive, stand, swallow |
(v.)suffer
+ adverb
badly, deal, disproportionately, economically, financially, gladly, great, greatly, needlessly, severely, silently, terribly
(v.)suffer
+ noun
abuse,
accident,
agony,
ailment,
allergy,
amnesia,
anguish,
ankle,
anxiety,
arrest,
arthritis,
asthma,
attack,
beating,
blow,
bout,
brain,
breakdown,
bruise,
burn,
casualty,
complication,
concussion,
consequence,
cramp,
damage,
decline,
defeat,
defect,
deficiency,
degradation,
delusion,
dementia,
depression,
deprivation,
diabetes,
diarrhea,
disadvantage,
disappointment,
discrimination,
disease,
disorder,
distress,
downturn,
drought,
embarrassment,
exhaustion,
fate,
fatigue,
fever,
fool,
fracture,
guilt,
gunshot,
harassment,
hardship,
harm,
headache,
heart,
hemorrhage,
humiliation,
hunger,
illness,
impairment,
indignity,
infection,
injury,
injustice,
insomnia,
kidney,
knee,
lack,
liver,
loss,
lung,
malnutrition,
migraine,
miscarriage,
misfortune,
neglect,
oppression,
pain,
panic,
persecution,
pneumonia,
recession,
rib,
schizophrenia,
seizure,
self-esteem,
setback,
shortage,
sickness,
silence,
sin,
stress,
stroke,
suffering,
symptom,
syndrome,
torment,
tragedy,
trauma,
withdrawal,
wound
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| derivations: |
sufferable (adj.), sufferably (adv.), sufferer (n.) |
The word suffer
contains the following parts:
suf-
Latin
prefix
that means under, below
  More about this word part:
The prefix suf-
occurs in Latin loanwords. It is an assimilated form of sub- used before roots beginning with "f," such as "fus" and "fix." See sub-.
Example words:
fer, lat2, -late
Latin
root
that means carry, bring
More about this word part:
Example words:
ablate, ablation, afferent, aquifer, collate, collation, confer, conference, conifer, correlate, defer1, differ, different, elate, elation, ferry, infer, offer, prefer, preference, preferable, prelate, proliferate, refer, relate, relation, relative, rotifer, suffer, transfer, translate, translation
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