suffer in English: To feel pain, sadness, or other bad things, often for a long time. (verb)

Translation

To feel pain, sadness, or other bad things, often for a long time.

Word origin

From Latin sufferre, meaning to carry from below, that is to bear a weight.

Verb typeregular (suffer, suffers, suffered)

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"Suffer" often points to pain that lasts a long time.

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Here "suffer" means to have a hard, unhappy time.

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"Suffer from" is the pattern used with an illness.

pain

The bad feeling in your body when you are hurt or ill.

hurt

To cause pain to someone, or to feel pain.

sad

Feeling unhappy, often wanting to cry.

sick

Not well in your body.

cry

To let water fall from your eyes when you are sad or hurt.

torture

The act of hurting someone badly on purpose, often to make them talk or to punish them.

painful

Causing pain; making you hurt in your body or your feelings.

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