| Suffer 1. (v. t.) 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. 2. (v. t.) To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under. 3. (v. t.) 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. 4. (v. t.) To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate. 5. (v. i.) To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient; as, we suffer from pain, sickness, or sorrow; we suffer with anxiety. 6. (v. i.) To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death. 7. (v. i.) To be injured; to sustain loss or damage. Thesaurus Entries abide, abide with, accept, ache, acquiesce, admit, agonize, ail, allow, anguish, be affected with, be doubly punished, be exposed to, be punished, be subjected to, bear, bear with, bide, blanch, bleed, blench, blink at, bow, brave, brook, catch it, complain of, condone, connive at, countenance, decline, deteriorate, diminish, encounter, endure, experience, fall off, feel, feel ill, feel pain, feel the pangs, get it, go down, go hard with, go through, grimace, grin and abide, hang in, hang in there, hang tough, have, have a misery, hear of, humor, hurt, indulge, know, labor under, leave, let, live through, lump, lump it, meet, meet up with, meet with, overlook, pain, pass through, pay, permit, persevere, pound, put up with, receive, run up against, see, shoot, shrink, smart, spend, stand, stand for, stand under, stick, stomach, submit, submit to, suffer anguish, suffer for, suffer the consequences, support, sustain, swallow, sweat, take, take up with, taste, thrill, throb, tingle, tolerate, twinge, twitch, undergo, wince, wink at, withstand, writhe, yield |