5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Suffer \Suf"fer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suffered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Suffering}.] [OE. suffren, soffren, OF. sufrir, sofrir, F. souffrir, (assumed) LL. sofferire, for L. sufferre; sub under + ferre to bear, akin to E. bear. See {Bear} to support.] 1. To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind. [1913 Webster] 2. To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under. [1913 Webster] Our spirit and strength entire, Strongly to suffer and support our pains. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience; as, most substances suffer a change when long exposed to air and moisture; to suffer loss or damage. [1913 Webster] If your more ponderous and settled project May suffer alteration. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate. [1913 Webster] Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. --Lev. xix. 17. [1913 Webster] I suffer them to enter and possess. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Syn: To permit; bear; endure; support; sustain; allow; admit; tolerate. See {Permit}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Suffering \Suf"fer*ing\, a. Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc. -- {Suf"fer*ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Suffering \Suf"fer*ing\, n. The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs. "Souls in sufferings tried." --Keble. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: suffering adj 1: troubled by pain or loss; "suffering refugees" 2: very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" [syn: {miserable}, {wretched}] n 1: a state of acute pain [syn: {agony}, {excruciation}] 2: misery resulting from affliction [syn: {woe}] 3: psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress" [syn: {distress}, {hurt}] 4: feelings of mental or physical pain [syn: {hurt}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 73 Moby Thesaurus words for "suffering": Schmerz, ache, aches and pains, aching, admissive, adversity, afflicted, affliction, agonized, agony, allowing, blow, consenting, convulsed, cramp, crucified, cut, discomfort, distress, distressed, dolor, grief, hardship, harrowed, hurt, hurting, in distress, in pain, indulgent, injury, lacerated, lax, lenient, lesion, malaise, martyred, martyrized, misery, misfortune, nasty blow, nonprohibitive, on the rack, pain, pained, pang, passion, permissive, permitting, racked, shock, sore, sore spot, spasm, stress, stress of life, stroke, tender spot, throes, tolerant, tolerating, torment, tormented, torture, tortured, trial, tribulation, twisted, under the harrow, unprohibitive, wound, wounded, wrench, wrung
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