Translation
to suffer, to endure
Examples
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She suffered a great deal in her young life.
o.
He is suffering because of a long illness.
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The people suffered great misery.
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I cannot bear such noise.
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They suffered because of the war for three years.
works both ways. Used intransitively with pro or , it names the cause of the suffering: pro o. Used transitively, the object is what you undergo: , on. From that second pattern comes the sense of putting up with something, close to , and the negative is exactly the English "I cannot bear him". The noun is sufero, and i with the causative suffix means to inflict suffering, which is a rather more useful word than one would like.
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