suffer
/ˈsʌfɚ/ verb B1- To undergo hardship. · Many artists suffer before becoming famous.
- To feel pain. · At least he didn't suffer when he died in the car crash.
- 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.· We hope you never have to suffer the same pain.
Plural suffer · He/she/it suffers · Past suffered · Past participle suffered · -ing form suffering
Verb forms
- Base form
- suffer
- He/she/it
- suffers
- Past
- suffered
- Past participle
- suffered
- -ing form
- suffering
From the library
At other times he would pick the long thorns out of the pads of his friends, for wolves suffer terribly from thorns and burs in their coats.
His fur was much thicker than Bagheera’s, but he had suffered sorely in the fight.
“I’m not suffering for company,” said Marilla shortly.
Down that ipecac went, not only once, but many times during the long, anxious night when the two little girls worked patiently over the suffering Minnie May, and Young Mary Joe, honestly anxious to do all she could, kept up a roaring fire and heated more water than would have been needed for a hospital of croupy babies.
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