meaning of suffers
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.
2. To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.
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.
4. To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.
5. 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. To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.
7. To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.
8. feel pain or be in pain
Related Words
suffer | sufferable | sufferance | suffered | sufferer | suffering |