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suffer meaning

EN[ˈsʌfə] [ˈsʌfɚ] [-ʌfə(ɹ)]
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WSuffer
  • To suffer is to undergo suffering.
  • Suffer may also refer to:
  • Suffer (album), by Bad Religion
  • "Suffer", a song by The Smashing Pumpkins from their album Gish
  • "Suffer", a song by Suicide Silence from their album No Time to Bleed
  • A legal term of art that means "to allow"
  • "Suffer", a song by Staind from their album Break The Cycle
  • "Suffer", a song by Stone Sour from Come What(ever) May

    Definition of suffer in English Dictionary

  • VerbSGsuffersPRsufferingPT, PPsuffered
    1. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
      1. (intransitive) To feel pain.
        1. At least he didn't suffer when he died in the car crash. ‎
      2. (intransitive, construed with from) To have a disease or condition.
        1. He's suffering from the flu this week. ‎
      3. (intransitive) To become worse.
        1. If you keep partying like this, your school-work will suffer. ‎
      4. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
        1. (transitive, archaic) To allow.
        2. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • Unlike the Cowardly Lion, his American counterpart from thirty years earlier, he not only suffers from faint-heartedness, but from behaving accordingly.
            • And whosoever doth not suffer corruption to entre, by the five gates unto his soule, is rekoned amongest ...
            • Rooney had been suffered a barren spell for England with only one goal in 15 games but he was in no mood to ignore the gifts on offer in front of an increasingly subdued Bulgarian support.
          2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
            • Though sexual myths project the image of the black male "pussy bandit," the "player" as the erotic hero leading this life of endless pleasure, behind the mask is the reality of suffering.
            • ...all the hinges of the animal frame are subverted, every animal function is vitiated; the carcass retains but just life enough to make it capable of suffering.
            • As they do they're encountering barn swallows, and the meeker barnies are suffering.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Verbs
            • Intransitive verbs
              • Transitive verbs
            Related Links:
            1. en suffered
            2. en suffering
            3. en sufferings
            4. en suffers
            5. en sufferer
            Source: Wiktionary

            Meaning of suffer for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "suffer" is a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.
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