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verb 
  1. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
  2. (intransitive) To feel pain.
At least he didn't when he died in the car crash.
  1. (context, intransitive, construed with from) To have a disease or condition.
He's suffering from the flu this week.
  1. (intransitive) To become worse.
If you keep partying like this, your school-work will .
  1. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
I've been suffering your insults for years.
I hope you never have to the same pain.
  1. (context, transitive, archaic) To allow.
    • 1560, John Knox, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
    • :... the holie ghoste doth manifestlie expresse, saying: I not that women usurpe authoritie above man:
Etymology: 
  • From sufferre.


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