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Grammar : Verb
Spell : suhf-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsʌf ər



Definition of suffers

Origin :
  • early 13c., "to be made to undergo, endure" (pain, death, punishment, judgment, grief), from Anglo-French suffrir, Old French sufrir, from Vulgar Latin *sufferire, variant of Latin sufferre "to bear, undergo, endure, carry or put under," from sub "up, under" (see sub-) + ferre "to carry" (see infer).
  • Replaced Old English þolian, þrowian. Meaning "to meekly submit to hardship" is from late 13c. That of "to undergo" (distress, suffering, etc.) is mid-14c. Meaning "to tolerate, allow" something to occur or continue is recorded from mid-13c. Related: Suffered; suffering.
  • verb be in pain
  • verb endure, permit
Example sentences :
  • As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • But to be good and brutally frank about it, what she suffers just now doesn't count with me.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • And it is the race that suffers and rots; the sins of the mother must be visited on the child.
  • Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
  • "Of the pains of love one suffers but does not die," she whispered.
  • Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
  • How she works, how she studies, how she suffers, are vividly portrayed.
  • Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
  • This outfit knows what I suffers with that Laredo wife of mine.
  • Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis
  • Dic is a true, pure man, who has been enticed into error and suffers for it.
  • Extract from : « A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties » by Charles Major
  • It is your genial fellow, with mobile features, that suffers so terribly from age.
  • Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
  • No doubt it would, and so it suffers from every commercial change.
  • Extract from : « Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 » by Various
  • It is not what one suffers that kills one, but what one knows that other people see that one suffers.
  • Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope

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