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Defenition of the word suffer

    • Defenition of the word suffer

      • To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to continue to exist or occur without interference; accept or undergo, often unwillingly.
      • To physically feel a damage, a pain, a disease or a punishment.
      • To experience or suffer an injury, a disease, etc.
      • put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"
      • feel pain
      • be very uncomfortable; "We really suffered during the long speeches"
      • feel unwell or under the weather, look green about the gills
      • get worse; "His grades suffered"
      • endure emotional pain
      • be subjected to; "He suffered the penalty"
      • feel pain or be in pain
      • undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate"
      • 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"
      • 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"
      • feel unwell or uncomfortable; "She is suffering from the hot weather"
      • be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation"
      • put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
      • endure (emotional pain); "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers"
      • undergo or be subjected to; "He suffered the penalty"; "Many saints suffered martyrdom"
      • feel physical pain; "Were you hurting after the accident?"
      • be given to; "She suffers from a tendency to talk too much"
      • undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
      • feel unwell or uncomfortable
      • get worse
      • be set at a disadvantage
      • put up with something or somebody unpleasant
      • experience (emotional) pain
      • undergo or be subjected to
      • undergo or suffer
      • feel physical pain
      • be given to

    Synonyms for the word suffer

      • abide
      • ache
      • be diagnosed with
      • be ill with
      • bear
      • brook
      • endure
      • experience
      • get
      • go through
      • have
      • have a medical condition
      • hurt
      • meet
      • put up
      • put up with
      • stand
      • stomach
      • sustain
      • tolerate
      • undergo

    Similar words in the suffer

      • suffer
      • sufferance
      • sufferance's
      • suffered
      • sufferer's
      • suffering
      • suffering's
      • sufferings
      • suffers

    Hyponyms for the word suffer

      • accept
      • agonise
      • agonize
      • ail
      • anguish
      • bear up
      • break down
      • break up
      • catch
      • choke
      • collapse
      • crack
      • crack up
      • cramp
      • crock up
      • die
      • famish
      • freeze
      • gag
      • get
      • grieve
      • have
      • hold still for
      • hunger
      • kill
      • live with
      • lose
      • pay
      • prick
      • sit out
      • sorrow
      • stand for
      • starve
      • sting
      • strangle
      • submit
      • suffocate
      • swallow
      • swelter
      • take
      • take a joke
      • take lying down
      • tolerate
      • twinge
      • undergo

    Hypernyms for the word suffer

      • allow
      • be
      • be given
      • comprehend
      • countenance
      • decline
      • experience
      • feel
      • get
      • go through
      • have
      • incline
      • lean
      • let
      • perceive
      • permit
      • receive
      • run
      • see
      • tend
      • undergo
      • worsen

    Antonyms for the word suffer

      • be well
      • enjoy

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