Dictionary Definition
suffer
Verb
1 undergo or be subjected to; "He suffered the
penalty"; "Many saints suffered martyrdom" [syn: endure] [ant: enjoy]
2 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" [syn: sustain, have, get]
3 endure (emotional pain); "Every time her
husband gets drunk, she suffers"
4 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" [syn:
digest, endure, stick out,
stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, put up]
5 get worse; "His grades suffered"
8 undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death";
"suffer a terrible fate" [syn: meet]
9 feel unwell or uncomfortable; "She is suffering
from the hot weather"
10 be given to; "She suffers from a tendency to
talk too much"
11 be set at a disadvantage; "This author really
suffers in translation" [syn: lose]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
- From suffero.
Verb
- To undergo hardship.
- To feel pain.
- At least he didn't suffer when he died in the car crash.
- In the context of "intransitive|construed with from": To have a
disease or condition.
- He's suffering from the flu this week.
- To become worse.
- If you keep partying like this, your school-work will suffer.
- To endure, undergo.
- I've been suffering your insults for years.
- I hope you never have to suffer the same pain.
- I've been suffering your insults for years.
- In the context of "transitive|archaic": To allow.
- 1560, John Knox, First Blast of the Trumpet against the
Monstrous Regiment of Women
- ... the holie ghoste doth manifestlie expresse, saying: I suffer not that women usurpe authoritie above man:
- 1560, John Knox, First Blast of the Trumpet against the
Monstrous Regiment of Women
Derived terms
Translations
To undergo hardship
- Arabic:
- Aromanian: paţu
- Chinese: 受苦 (shòukǔ)
- Danish: lide
- Dutch: lijden
- Esperanto: suferi
- Finnish: kärsiä
- French: subir
- German: leiden
- Hungarian: szenvedni
- Italian: soffrire
- Japanese: 被る
- Korean: 괴로와하다 (koerowahada)
- Old English: þolian, winnan, þrowian
- Polish: doświadczać
- Portuguese: sofrer
- Romanian: suferi
- Russian: страдать (stradát’)
- Scottish Gaelic: fulaing
- Slovene: trpeti
- Spanish: sufrir
- Swedish: lida
To feel pain
- Finnish: kärsiä, kitua
- German: leiden
- Japanese: 苦しむ
- Polish: cierpieć
- Romanian: suferi
To have a disease or condition
- Finnish: olla, potea
- German: leiden
- Japanese: 掛かる qualifier general, 罹患する qualifier medical term
To become worse
- Finnish: kärsiä
To endure, undergo
- Finnish: kestää, kärsiä
- German: erleiden
- Japanese: 我慢する
To allow
- Finnish: sietää, hyväksyä
Extensive Definition
To suffer is to undergo suffering.
Suffer may also refer to:
- Suffer, the Bad Religion album
- "Suffer" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins off their 1991 album Gish.
- Suffer is a Czech punk rock band. The official web site: www.suffer.cz
- SuFFeR is a French rock band. The official web site: SuFFeR
- Suffer was a Swedish Death metal band.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abide,
abide with, accept,
ache, acquiesce, admit, agonize, ail, allow, anguish, be affected with, be
doubly punished, be exposed to, be punished, be subjected to,
bear, bear with, bide, blanch, bleed, blench, blink at, bow, brave, brook, catch it, complain of,
condone, connive at,
countenance,
decline, deteriorate, diminish, encounter, endure, experience, fall off,
feel, feel ill, feel pain,
feel the pangs, get it, go down, go hard with, go through, grimace, grin and abide, hang
in, hang in there, hang tough, have, have a misery, hear of,
humor, hurt, indulge, know, labor under, leave, let, live through, lump, lump it, meet, meet up with, meet with,
overlook, pain, pass through, pay, permit, persevere, pound, put up with, receive, run up against,
see, shoot, shrink, smart, spend, stand, stand for, stand under,
stick, stomach, submit, submit to, suffer
anguish, suffer for, suffer the consequences, support, sustain, swallow, sweat, take, take up with, taste, thrill, throb, tingle, tolerate, twinge, twitch, undergo, wince, wink at, withstand, writhe, yield