Definitions for suffer

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suffer suf·fer

Spelling: [suhf-er]

IPA: /ˈsʌf ər/

Suffer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in suffer (effrsu).

Definitions for suffer

verb (used with object)

1. to undergo, be subjected to, or endure (pain, distress, injury, loss, or anything unpleasant):
2. to undergo or experience (any action, process, or condition):
3. to tolerate or allow:

verb (used without object)

1. to undergo or feel pain or distress:
2. to sustain injury, disadvantage, or loss:
3. to undergo a penalty, as of death:
4. to endure pain, disability, death, etc., patiently or willingly.

Origin of suffer

1200-50; Middle English suff(e)ren Latin sufferre, equivalent to suf- suf- + ferre to bear¹; compare Old French sofrir Vulgar Latin

Examples for suffer

He must suffer more, must lose more, must pay more with happiness for his folly.

He did suffer from ‘Black Dog’ [depression] as he called it and having something to concentrate on was therapeutic for him.

In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die unattended.

But here, run away with my pen, I suffer my mother to be angry with me on her own account.

“One-third of South Asians and more than half of all Sub-Saharan Africans suffer from malnutrition or undernutrition,” he writes.

And yet if I suffer it can only be with what I may call a curative suffering.

If we permit our economy to drift and decline, the vulnerable will suffer most.

Take responsibility for an endless stream of people, even as our own suffer, and struggle to get policy relief from Washington.

The birds are debeaked, suffer ulcers, and terrible feet conditions.

I suffer from no delusion that the justice system treats black and white equally.