Suffer
['sʌfə] or ['sʌfɚ]
Definition
(verb.) feel pain or be in pain.
(verb.) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); 'She suffered a fracture in the accident'; 'He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars'; 'She got a bruise on her leg'; 'He got his arm broken in the scuffle'.
(verb.) feel unwell or uncomfortable; 'She is suffering from the hot weather'.
(verb.) get worse; 'His grades suffered'.
(verb.) be set at a disadvantage; 'This author really suffers in translation'.
(verb.) experience (emotional) pain; 'Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers'.
(verb.) undergo or be subjected to; 'He suffered the penalty'; 'Many saints suffered martyrdom'.
(verb.) undergo or suffer; 'meet a violent death'; 'suffer a terrible fate'.
(verb.) be given to; 'She suffers from a tendency to talk too much'.
Inputed by Joanna--From WordNet
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.
Typist: Melba
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Undergo, feel, meet with, experience, go through.[2]. Endure, sustain, support, tolerate, bear, POCKET, bear up under, put up with.[3]. Permit, allow, indulge, admit, let, give permission to, give leave to.
v. n. [1]. Feel pain.[2]. Be put to inconvenience.[3]. Be punished, undergo punishment.[4]. Be injured, be impaired, sustain loss or damage.
Checker: Noelle
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Bear, endure, {[eunain]?}, undergo, let, permit, allow, admit, tolerate,experience, support
ANT:Resist, repel, expel, reject, disallow, repudiate, forbid, ignore
Inputed by Glenda
Definition
v.t. to undergo: to endure: to be affected by: to permit.—v.i. to feel pain or punishment: to sustain loss: to be injured.—adj. Suff′erable that may be suffered: allowable.—n. Suff′erableness.—adv. Suff′erably.—ns. Suff′erance state of suffering: endurance: permission: toleration; Suff′erer; Suff′ering distress loss or injury.
Inputed by Cornelia
Examples
- O child, the human heart _can_ suffer! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yes, he said, I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner. Plato. The Republic.
- De Guiche, I will not suffer you to kiss and pull my daughters about in this way. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Your army will cheerfully suffer many privations to break up Hood's army and render it useless for future operations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At one time I considered whether I should not declare myself guilty, and suffer the penalty of the law, less innocent than poor Justine had been. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He has been so unlucky as to lose _your_ friendship, replied Elizabeth with emphasis, and in a manner which he is likely to suffer from all his life. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- O, my dear brethren and fellow-sojourners in Vanity Fair, which among you does not know and suffer under such benevolent despots? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What a fine town but how the _buena gente_, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She suffered Mr. Franklin to lead her back into the room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I suffered her to do as she pleased. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- O mother, you must have suffered! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Meyler, in his anxiety to make us all speak to him, suffered Fanny to depart in peace. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And nothing is so devastating, nothing--' 'Yes,' said Ursula humbly, 'you must have suffered. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was taken on his return home from the African station, where he had suffered from the fever of the country. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There, I found my mother, very pale and with red eyes: into whose arms I ran, and begged her pardon from my suffering soul. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The exquisite pain and suffering endured previous to the use of anaesthetics often caused death by exhaustion. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But let us take a decided course, and put an end to any discomfort you may be suffering. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Scores of millions were suffering and enfeebled by under-nourishment and misery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some of my suffering is very acute. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Only those who know of the suffering endured in former times can fully appreciate the decrease in pain brought about by the proper use of narcotics. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Her face was like a small, fine mask, sinister too, masked with unwilling suffering. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Each long hour was counted, and He suffers was the burthen of all her thoughts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It is she who remains and suffers--and has the leisure to think, and brood, and remember. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The more he suffers, the more averse he will be to me, having made me the principal representative of the great occasion of his suffering. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The evils from which society suffers are set down to the efforts of misguided individuals to transgress these boundaries. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I wonder whether he suffers in his conscience because of that habit, said Dorothea; I wonder whether he wishes he could leave it off. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The innocent suffers; but she whom I thought amiable and good has not betrayed the trust I reposed in her, and I am consoled. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- One suffers little because all of us have been formed to resist suffering. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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