SUFFER
Definition:
- [verb] undergo or be subjected to; "He suffered the penalty"; "Many saints suffered martyrdom"
Synonyms: endure
- [verb] 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"
Synonyms: sustain, have, get
- [verb] endure (emotional pain); "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers"
- [verb] 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"
Synonyms: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, put up
- [verb] get worse; "His grades suffered"
- [verb] feel pain or be in pain
Synonyms: hurt
- [verb] feel physical pain; "Were you hurting after the accident?"
Synonyms: hurt, ache
- [verb] undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate"
Synonyms: meet
- [verb] feel unwell or uncomfortable; "She is suffering from the hot weather"
- [verb] be given to; "She suffers from a tendency to talk too much"
- [verb] be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation"
Synonyms: lose
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Related Words:
- tolerate
- die
- break down, collapse
- crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse
- agonize, agonise
- anguish
- lose
- grieve, sorrow
- accept, live with, swallow
- stand for, hold still for
- bear up
- take lying down
- take a joke
- take, undergo, submit
- sit out
- pay
- have
- gag, choke, strangle, suffocate
- ail
- starve, hunger, famish
- catch, get
- twinge
- prick, sting, twinge
- kill
- freeze
- swelter
