suffer
/'sʌfə/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To experience or be subjected to something unpleasant: This is the core meaning, indicating undergoing pain, hardship, loss, or something negative.
- To tolerate or endure: To allow something to happen or continue, often reluctantly.
- To become worse in quality or condition: To deteriorate or be negatively affected.
Examples of Usage
- Verb:
- She will suffer the consequences of her actions. (She will experience the negative results.)
- He suffered a great loss when his friend moved away. (He experienced emotional pain.)
- The patient is suffering from a high fever. (The patient is experiencing physical discomfort.)
- The image quality suffers in low light. (The image quality becomes worse.)
- I cannot suffer such rudeness in my house. (I cannot tolerate such rudeness.)
Advanced Usage
"to suffer from": to be chronically affected by an illness, condition, or problem.
- He suffers from chronic back pain.
- The company suffers from poor management.
"to suffer for": to experience negative consequences because of a specific cause.
- He suffered for his beliefs. (He was punished or experienced hardship because of his beliefs.)
"to suffer in silence": to endure pain or hardship without complaining or telling others.
- She chose to suffer in silence rather than ask for help.
Variants and Related Words
Sufferer (n): a person who suffers, especially from a disease.
- Support groups can help sufferers of the same illness.
Suffering (n): the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship.
- The documentary showed the suffering caused by the war.
Sufferable (adj): able to be endured; tolerable.
- The heat was just barely sufferable.
Synonyms
- Endure: to suffer patiently.
- Undergo: to experience something, especially something unpleasant.
- Tolerate: to allow the existence or occurrence of something without interference.
- Bear: to carry the weight of; to endure.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Suffer through: to endure an unpleasant experience for its duration.
- We had to suffer through a very long and boring lecture.
Related Idioms
Not suffer fools gladly: to be impatient or intolerant of people one considers stupid or foolish.
- The professor is brilliant but does not suffer fools gladly.
Suffer a setback: to experience a reversal or check in progress.
- The research project suffered a setback when the funding was cut.
Verb
- be set at a disadvantage
- This author really suffers in translation
- undergo or suffer
- meet a violent death
- suffer a terrible fate
- be given to
- She suffers from a tendency to talk too much
- feel unwell or uncomfortable
- She is suffering from the hot weather
- feel physical pain
- Were you hurting after the accident?
- feel pain or be in pain
- get worse
- His grades suffered
- 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
- experience (emotional) pain
- Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers
- 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
- undergo or be subjected to
- He suffered the penalty
- Many saints suffered martyrdom