Suffer (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

verb (used without object)
  1. to undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering.
  2. to sustain injury, disadvantage, or loss: One's health suffers from overwork. The business suffers from lack of capital.
  3. to undergo a penalty, as of death: The traitor was made to suffer on the gallows.
  4. to endure pain, disability, death, etc., patiently or willingly.
verb (used with object)
  1. to undergo, be subjected to, or endure (pain, distress, injury, loss, or anything unpleasant): to suffer the pangs of conscience.
  2. to undergo or experience (any action, process, or condition): to suffer change.
  3. to tolerate or allow: I do not suffer fools gladly.
verb
  1. to undergo or be subjected to (pain, punishment, etc)
  2. to undergo or experience (anything)
  3. to be set at a disadvantage
  4. to be prepared to endure (pain, death, etc)
  5. to permit (someone to do something)
  6. suffer from
    • to be ill with, esp recurrently
    • to be given to
Suffer (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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