Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To feel pain or distress; sustain injury or harm.
- intransitive verb To have a specified shortcoming or weakness.
- intransitive verb To sustain a loss, setback, or decline in effectiveness; become worse.
- intransitive verb To appear at a disadvantage.
- intransitive verb To experience, undergo, or feel (something painful, injurious, or unpleasant).
- intransitive verb To undergo or be subjected to (a negative experience or development).
- intransitive verb To put up with; tolerate: synonym: endure.
- intransitive verb To permit; allow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To endure; support bravely or unflinchingly; sustain; bear up under.
- To be affected by; undergo; be acted on or influenced by; sustain; pass through.
- To feel or bear (what is painful, disagreeable, or distressing); submit to with distress or grief; undergo: as, to
suffer acute bodily pain; to suffer grief of mind. - To refrain from hindering; allow; permit; tolerate.
- To tolerate abstention from.
- Synonyms To feel, bear, experience, go through.
- Allow, Permit, Consent to, etc. See
allow . - To have endurance; bear evils bravely.
- To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; bear what is distressing or inconvenient.
- To be injured; sustain loss or damage.
- To undergo punishment; especially, to be put to death.
- To allow; permit.
- To wait; hold out.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient.
- intransitive verb To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.
- intransitive verb To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.
- transitive verb To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo.
- transitive verb To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.
- transitive verb To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience
- transitive verb To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
undergo hardship . - verb intransitive To
feel pain . - verb intransitive To have a
disease or condition. - verb intransitive To become
worse . - verb transitive To
endure ,undergo . - verb transitive, archaic To
allow .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be set at a disadvantage
- verb undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- verb feel pain or be in pain
- verb put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- verb experience (emotional) pain
- verb undergo or be subjected to
- verb feel physical pain
- verb be given to
- verb undergo or suffer
- verb get worse
- verb feel unwell or uncomfortable
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Speaking at the U.N. Conference on Climate Change in N.w York, President Obama says the world must address climate change now, or what he calls suffer irreversible catastrophe.
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Unfortunately, especially since the rise of the Internet, readers suffer from a breadth of choice that terrifies, and much of it (although poor) is free.
Short Story Markets - Noise Made Ulysses 2009
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The GOP seems to suffer from the Reagan delusion that cutting taxes will spur the economy and back-fill for tax cuts.
Stephen Herrington: Patty Murray Is the Right Choice for Both Washingtons Stephen Herrington 2010
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So attempted defenses of Obama along these lines suffer from a fatal circularity.
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The GOP seems to suffer from the Reagan delusion that cutting taxes will spur the economy and back-fill for tax cuts.
Stephen Herrington: Patty Murray Is the Right Choice for Both Washingtons Stephen Herrington 2010
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Unfortunately, especially since the rise of the Internet, readers suffer from a breadth of choice that terrifies, and much of it (although poor) is free.
Archive 2009-12-01 Ulysses 2009
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On one side are the proponents of individual responsibility, who believe that fat people suffer from a surplus of self-indulgence and a shortage of willpower.
Beating Obesity 2010
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The GOP seems to suffer from the Reagan delusion that cutting taxes will spur the economy and back-fill for tax cuts.
Stephen Herrington: Patty Murray Is the Right Choice for Both Washingtons Stephen Herrington 2010
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About 90% of diabetics – 2.5 million people in the UK – suffer from the type 2 condition.
Diabetes and obesity rates soar to 'shocking' levels Helen Carter 2010
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Unlike corporeal representatives, corporations wouldn't suffer from the ravages of age and infirmity.
Murray Hill Inc.: We're Here, We're Corporate, Get Used To It! Murray Hill Inc. 2010
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