suffer
To undergo hardship.
Example
“Many artists suffer before becoming famous.”
Other meanings
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.”
Synonyms
- endure
Related words
- outsuffer
- sufferability
- sufferfest
- unsuffered
- insufferable
- suffer in silence
- sufferable
- sufferance
- sufferer
- suffer from
- suffering
- suffer by comparison
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "sufferō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “suffer” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.