亚洲网紅露点

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suffer

[ suhf-er ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to undergo or feel pain or distress:

    The patient is still suffering.

  2. to sustain injury, disadvantage, or loss:

    One's health suffers from overwork. The business suffers from lack of capital.

  3. to undergo a penalty, as of death:

    The traitor was made to suffer on the gallows.

  4. to endure pain, disability, death, etc., patiently or willingly.


verb (used with object)

  1. to undergo, be subjected to, or endure (pain, distress, injury, loss, or anything unpleasant):

    to suffer the pangs of conscience.

    Synonyms:

  2. to undergo or experience (any action, process, or condition):

    to suffer change.

  3. to tolerate or allow:

    I do not suffer fools gladly.

    Synonyms: , ,

suffer

/ 藞蝉蕦蹿蓹 /

verb

  1. to undergo or be subjected to (pain, punishment, etc)
  2. tr to undergo or experience (anything)

    to suffer a change of management

  3. intr to be set at a disadvantage

    this author suffers in translation

  4. to be prepared to endure (pain, death, etc)

    he suffers for the cause of freedom

  5. archaic.
    tr to permit (someone to do something)

    suffer the little children to come unto me

  6. suffer from
    1. to be ill with, esp recurrently
    2. to be given to

      he suffers from a tendency to exaggerate

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Usage

It is better to avoid using the words suffer and sufferer in relation to chronic illness or disability. They may be considered demeaning and disempowering. Suitable alternative are have , experience , be diagnosed with
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Derived Forms

  • 藞蝉耻蹿蹿别谤别谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 蝉耻蹿顎僨别谤路补路产濒别 adjective
  • 蝉耻蹿顎僨别谤路补路产濒别路ness noun
  • 蝉耻蹿顎僨别谤路补路产濒测 adverb
  • 蝉耻蹿顎僨别谤路别谤 noun
  • non路蝉耻蹿顎僨别谤路补路产濒别 adjective
  • non路蝉耻蹿顎僨别谤路补路产濒别路ness noun
  • non路蝉耻蹿顎僨别谤路补路产濒测 adverb
  • 辞耻迟顎却耻蹿顎僨别谤 verb (used with object)
  • 辫谤别路蝉耻蹿顎僨别谤 verb
  • un路蝉耻蹿顎僨别谤路补路产濒别 adjective
  • un路蝉耻蹿顎僨别谤路补路产濒别路ness noun
  • un路蝉耻蹿顎僨别谤路补路产濒测 adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of suffer1

First recorded in 1200鈥50; Middle English suff(e)ren, from Latin sufferre, from suf- suf- ( def ) + ferre 鈥渢o bring, carry鈥; compare Old French sofrir, from Vulgar Latin 蝉耻蹿蹿别谤墨谤别 (unrecorded); bear 1( def ), -phore ( def )
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of suffer1

C13: from Old French soffrir, from Latin sufferre, from sub- + ferre to bear
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Idioms and Phrases

see not suffer fools gladly .
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Example Sentences

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Local police have suggested the woman, who suffered from a lung condition, died after the ventilator she was using lost power during the outage, according to media reports.

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He added that Burrows' decision to flee to Thailand increased the anguish suffered by his victims.

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Areas used for aquaculture have since suffered chronic tidal flooding, leading to oversalinization, and land has been lost, the study said.

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Both Mr and Mrs Sebastian, who are now separated, said they had suffered with post traumatic stress disorder since her death.

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She was taken to hospital after suffering extensive facial trauma and multiple fractures, where she died the following day.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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