suffer
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
suffer/ˈsʌfə(r)/
▶verb
- 1 experience or be subjected to (something bad or unpleasant).
■ (suffer from) be affected by or subject to (an illness or ailment).
■ become or appear worse in quality.
■ archaic undergo martyrdom or execution.
- 2 archaic tolerate.
■ allow to do something.
– derivatives
sufferable adjective,
sufferer noun.
sufferable adjective,
sufferer noun.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. suffrir, from L. sufferre, from sub- ‘from below’ + ferre ‘to bear’.
'suffer' also found in these Oxford entries:
ache
- affirmative action
- arrest
- bath
- cataplexy
- compassion
- compatible
- condole
- convulse
- crack
- cramp
- crash
- cropper
- damn
- degrade
- demean
- depressive
- diathesis
- dirt
- eat
- endure
- fake
- famish
- fatigue
- finger
- get
- give
- go
- grieve
- grin
- haemorrhage
- have
- herniate
- hibakusha
- hunger
- hurt
- indolent
- insufferable
- jitter
- look
- management
- mental cruelty
- number
- passible
- passion
- passive
- patience
- patient
- pay
- peril
