suffer
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Italic *ferō
Latin ferō
Latin suffero
Latin sufferre
Vulgar Latin *sufferīre
Old French suffrirbor.
Middle English suffren
English suffer
From Middle English suffren, from Anglo-Norman suffrir, from Latin sufferre (“to offer, hold up, bear, suffer”), from sub- (“up, under”) + ferō (“to carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”). Displaced native Old English þrōwian.
Inflected forms:
form: suffers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suffering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: suffered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: suffered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: suffer
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: suffer
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: suffered
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: suffer
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: sufferest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: suffered
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: sufferedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: suffers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suffereth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: suffered
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: suffer
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: suffered
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: suffer
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: suffered
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: suffer
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: suffering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: suffered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To undergo hardship.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Many artists suffer before becoming famous.
gloss: To feel pain.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: At least he didn't suffer when he died in the car crash.
gloss: To become worse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: If you keep partying like this, your school-work will suffer.
Our correspondent found that timekeeping had suffered following the substitution of Class 5 4-6-0s on these workings.
gloss: To endure, undergo.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I've been suffering your insults for years.
We hope you never have to suffer the same pain.
If you may pleaſe to thinke I loue the King, / And through him, what’s neereſt to him, which is / Your gracious ſelfe; embrace but my direction, / If your more ponderous and ſetled proiect may ſuffer alteration.
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
gloss: To allow.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to liue.
But Iesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not to come vnto me: for of such is þe kingdome of heauen.
These constitute the important inflectional changes that have taken place in Modern English. There are other grammatical changes, mostly syntactical in their nature, into which the limits of this work do not suffer us to enter.
"Employ" includes to suffer or permit to work.
[…] it shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle to be parked […] beyond the period of time established by the duration of the parking meter […]
Synonyms: ache
agonize
anguish
hurt
pain
passion
suffer
thole
throe
wark
wring
Antonyms: be pleased
luxuriate
relax
Related words: sublate
sublation
cry out
gnash
groan
moan
scream
scrunch
shriek
spasm
squirm
wince
writhe
agonized
Derived words: insufferable
outsuffer
sufferability
sufferable
sufferance
suffer by comparison
sufferer
sufferfest
suffer fools gladly
gladly suffer fools
suffer from
suffering
suffer in silence
the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must
unsufferable
unsuffered
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