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Suffer

Definition: Suffer

Suffer

Verb

1. Undergo or be subjected to; "He suffered the penalty"; "Many saints suffered martyrdom".

2. Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); "She suffered a fracture in the accident"; "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"; "She got a bruise on her leg"; "He got his arm broken in the scuffle".

3. Endure (emotional pain); "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers".

4. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat".

5. Get worse; "His grades suffered".

6. Feel pain or be in pain.

7. Feel physical pain; "Were you hurting after the accident?".

8. Undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate".

9. Feel unwell or uncomfortable; "She is suffering from the hot weather".

10. : be given to; "She suffers from a tendency to talk too much".

11. : be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "suffer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Suffer \Suf"fer\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Suffered; Suffering.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Suffer

Synonyms: abide (v), ache (v), bear (v), brook (v), endure (v), get (v), have (v), hurt (v), lose (v), meet (v), put up (v), stand (v), stomach (v), support (v), sustain (v), tolerate (v). (additional references)
Antonyms: be well (v), enjoy (v). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Suffer

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)






Suffer (album)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Suffer is a punk album by Bad Religion, released in 1988 (see 1988 in music). It was their first album featuring the original line-up since their previous break-up. Though the album was critically well-received and a hit among punk fans, Suffer achieved little chart recognition.

Track listing

  1. You Are (The Government) (Graffin/Gurewitz) - 1:19
  2. 1000 More Fools (Graffin/Gurewitz) - 1:34
  3. How Much Is Enough? (Graffin/Gurewitz) - 1:22
  4. When? (Graffin/Gurewitz) - 1:38
  5. Give You Nothing (Graffin/Gurewitz) - 2:00
  6. Land of Competition (Graffin/Gurewitz) - 2:00
  7. Forbidden Beat (Graffin/Gurewitz) - 1:53
  8. Best for You (Graffin/Gurewitz) - 1:57
  9. Suffer (Graffin/Gurewitz) - 1:45
  10. Delirium of Disorder (Graffin/Gurewitz) - 1:37
  11. Part II (The Numbers Game) (Graffin/Gurewitz) - 1:38
  12. What Can You Do? (Graffin/Gurewitz) - 2:44
  13. Do What You Want (Graffin/Gurewitz) - 1:05
  14. Part IV (The Index Fossil) (Graffin/Gurewitz) - 2:02
  15. Pessimistic Lines (Graffin/Gurewitz) - 1:07

Personnel

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Suffer."

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Synonyms within Context: Suffer

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Activity

Look sharp; have all one's eyes about one; (vigilance); rise, arouse oneself, hustle, get up early, be about, keep moving, steal a march, kill two birds with one stone; seize the opportunity; lose no time, not lose a moment, make the most of one's time, not suffer the grass to grow under one's feet, improve the shining hour, make short work of; dash off; make haste; do one's best take pains; (exert oneself); do wonders, work wonders.

Concealment

Be concealed; Verb: suffer an eclipse; retire from sight, couch; hide oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu, lie in close; lie in ambush (ambush); seclude oneself; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep, play at hide and seek; hide in holes and corners; still hunt.

Disease

Verb: be ill; Adjective: ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with, complain of, have; droop, flag, languish, halt; sicken, peak, pine; gasp.

Eventuality

Meet with; experience, enjoy, encounter, undergo, suffer, pass through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to; fall to the lot of; be one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot; find; endure; (feel).

Excitability

Tolerate, suffer, stand, bide; abide, aby; bear with, put up with, take up with, abide with; acquiesce; submit; (yield); submit with a good grace; resign oneself to, reconcile oneself to; brook, digest, eat, swallow, pocket, stomach.

Feeling

Bear, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole, aby; abide; (be composed); experience; (meet with); taste, prove; labor under, smart under; bear the brunt of, brave, stand.

Pain

Verb: feel pain, suffer pain, experience pain, undergo pain, bear pain, endure pain; Noun: smart, ache; (physical pain); suffer, bleed, ail; be the victim of.

Permission

Verb: permit; give permission; Noun: give power; let, allow, admit; suffer, bear with, tolerate, recognize; concede; accord, vouchsafe, favor, humor, gratify, indulge, stretch a point; wink at, connive at; shut one's eyes to.

Physical Pain

Verb: feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain. Noun: suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge, twitch, lancinate; writhe, wince, make a wry face; sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles.

Punishment

Suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment; be flogged.

Be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty; be hanged; come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served; be electrocuted, fry, ride the lightning; face the firing squad.

Submission

Surrender, surrender at discretion; cede, capitulate, come to terms, retreat, beat a retreat; draw in one's horns; (humility); give way, give round, give in, give up; cave in; suffer judgment by default; bend, bend to one's yoke, bend before the storm; reel back; bend down, knuckle down, knuckle to, knuckle under; knock under.

Untimeliness

Lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity, neglect; an opportunity; allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by, allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by; waste time; (be inactive); let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Suffer

English words defined with "suffer": agonise, agonize, anguishBeteem, blight, break up, By the boardcatch, collapse, cost, crack, crack up, crock updie, die back, die down, Dreefallgetharass, have, Hellinfernal region, infernoloseMainprise, malice, maliciousness, meet, miscarry, miss, Mistidenether region, nitrogen narcosisoppressPassibility, perdition, persecute, plagueshipwreck, spite, spitefulness, St Vitus, Suffered, sweltertake lying down, Than, the pit, To be burned out, To be on the rack, to catch it, To come off by, To give vent to, To go through, To let out, To lie under, To lose ground, To meet with, To play the mischief, To put up with, To roll about, To run the gantlet, tumblevenom, VitusWarrant of attorney. (references)
Etymologies containing "suffer": Wound. (references)

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Modern Usage: Suffer

DomainUsage

Screenplays

If I must suffer, humanity will suffer with me. (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Your evil says you cannot be evil, and I shall suffer for it no longer! (Interview With the Vampire; writing credit: Anne Rice)

I don't want to kill you, Nick, I just want you to suffer. (Double Jeopardy; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

Look, if you touch one hair on his head, I swear I will spend the rest of my life making sure you suffer. (Big; writing credit: Gary Ross; Anne Spielberg)

There is not one of us who would not gladly suffer death to rid this country of the Romans once and for all. (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

Lyrics

Now everyone of use was made to suffer (Walking On Broken Glass; performing artist: Annie Lennox)

And suffer just enough to sing the blues (Sad Songs (Say So Much); performing artist: Elton John)

Suffer for my sins. (Criminal; performing artist: Fiona Apple)

Could suffer so hard (Something About You; performing artist: Level 42)

And you should know I suffer the same (Frozen; performing artist: Madonna)

Clever

Better to suffer for the truth than be rewarded for a lie. (references; author: Swedish Proverb)

Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under. (references; author: Educational Proverb)

If 4 out of 5 people suffer from diarrhea, does that mean that one enjoys it? (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Suffer and Repent Sin (1965)

What Women Suffer (1911)

Suffer Little Children... For of Such Is the Kingdom of Labor (1909)

I Would Suffer Cold Hands for You (2000)

Suffer the Children (1984)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Suffer

DomainTitle

Books

  • Suffer the Little Children: An Allegorical Novel (reference)

  • The Ute massacre : brave Miss Meeker's captivity, her own account of it : also, the narratives of her mother and Mrs. Price, to which is added further thrilling and intensely interesting details, not hitherto published, of the bravery and frightful suffer (reference)

  • Broken Things: Why We Suffer [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  • Play the Ball Where the Monkey Drops It: Why We Suffer and How We Can Hope (reference)

  • Suffer Little Children: A Sister Fidelma Mystery (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Suffer

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Photo Album: Suffer

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Normal iron stores are seen as dark blue-staining material in the bone marrow. A person unable to maintain a balanced, iron-rich diet may suffer from some degree of Iron Deficiency Anemia, or IDA. Credit: CDC.

Cancer Runs In Certain Circles. : The fact is, over 85% of the people who suffer from mouth cancer are tobacco chewers. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

She Suffered From Rubella For Three Days Her Baby May Suffer For Life : Rubella. Vaccinate Before It's Too Late. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

If you exercise you will suffer less from the heat than if you loaf. Credit: Library of Congress.

Martyrs to duty. The little boy who hated to see a poor dog suffer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Americans suffer when careless talk kills! / Harry Anderson. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Suffer

AuthorQuotation

Henri Frederic Amiel

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Jean De La Fontaine

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

Marcus Licinius Crassus

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Plutarch

Whoever tries for great objects must suffer something.

Seneca

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Swedish Proverb

Better to suffer for the truth than be rewarded for a lie.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Suffer

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

They that fought on his side cannot suffer by the conquest, but must at least be as much freemen as they were before. (Second Treatise of Government)

US Declaration of Independence

1776

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Suffer

TitleAuthorQuote

A Grief Observed

C.S. Lewis

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer.

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

No one would suffer from cold, if only they would think of those little things.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Most persons, owing to causes which I may not have space to hint at, suffer moral detriment from this peculiar mode of life.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

I have the choice to suffer or to enjoy.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

His soul sank back deeper into depths of contrite peace, no longer able to suffer the pain of dread, and sending forth, as she sank, a faint prayer.

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

By your patience, I may not suffer you to visit them.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

I gave him the promise he required, but at the same time protested that I would suffer the greatest hardships rather than return to live among Yahoos.

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms a gainst a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Suffer

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Twenty-five million Americans suffer from ulcers. (references)

Surrounding areas suffer relatively little trauma. (references)

Survivors suffer from severe mental and physical impairment. (references)

Business

They sometimes suffer from poor marketing and after-sales service. (references)

Until substantial resources are found for these efforts, both Chinese and foreign firms alike will suffer from piracy. (references)

Several southern states, most notably Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Chiapas, continued to suffer politically motivated violence. (references)

Children

Pakistan

Children suffer a high rate of preventable childhood diseases. (references)

El Salvador

A 2000 census showed that 19 percent of children suffer from chronic malnutrition. (references)

Cambodia

Children frequently suffer from malnutrition and the inadequacy of the health care system. (references)

Civil Liberties

Portugal

The Church's leaders claim that they suffer no discrimination or opposition in the country. (references)

Laos

Citizens who lodge legitimate complaints with government departments generally do not suffer reprisals. (references)

Honduras

The news media also continued to suffer from internal corruption, politicization, and outside influences. (references)

Discrimination

Suriname

However, in practice several groups within society suffer various forms of discrimination. (references)

Economic History

Israel

Companies that do not maintain quality service suffer in the long-term in the market. (references)

Senegal

The sector continues to suffer from low production due to uncertain rainfall and soil depletion. (references)

Human Rights

Kazakhstan

Approximately 9,000 prisoners suffer from tuberculosis. (references)

Russia

Inmates in the prison system often suffer from inadequate medical care. (references)

Panama

Coiba prisoners suffer from malnutrition and shortages of potable water. (references)

Indigenous People

Philippines

Indigenous children suffer from lack of basic services, health, and education. (references)

Philippines

Because they inhabit mountainous areas also favored by guerrillas, indigenous people suffer disproportionately from counterinsurgency operations. (references)

Suriname

Most Amerindians suffer a number of disadvantages and have only limited ability to participate in decisions affecting their lands, cultures, traditions, and natural resources. (references)

Minorities

Slovenia

Roma suffer disproportionately from poverty and unemployment. (references)

Iran

Muslims who convert to Christianity also suffer discrimination. (references)

Bulgaria

Attacks by private citizens on Roma continued, and Roma continued to suffer incidents of violent discrimination. (references)

Political Economy

Nepal

Women, the disabled, and lower castes suffer from widespread discrimination. (references)

Mozambique

The military continued to suffer from a lack of money and a long-term strategy. (references)

Bolivia

The executive and legislative branches suffer from corruption and inefficiency to some extent. (references)

Political Rights

Singapore

The PAP does not suffer from this disadvantage. (references)

Trade

Israel

American companies will find that Israel does not suffer from any lack of capital or trade financing. (references)

Argentina

Merchandise may suffer changes, which increase or lower its value, but no export charges will be levied when goods remain unchanged. (references)

Women

Zambia

Married women who are employed often suffer from discriminatory conditions of service. (references)

Central African Republic

Women in rural areas generally suffer more discrimination than do women in urban areas. (references)

Indonesia

Women disproportionately suffer from illiteracy, poor health, and inadequate nutrition. (references)

Worker Rights

Cape Verde

Both unions suffer from a shortage of funds. (references)

Philippines

Some eventually work as prostitutes or suffer abuse by their foreign employers or husbands. (references)

Guatemala

The victims were told that their families in China would suffer if they broke the debt bondage agreement. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox: I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! Farquharson Harris M

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Suffer

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Geoffrey Hoon

My impression is that it will be a mixture of things. Those that resist will certainly suffer in the way that we've seen thousands of Iraqis suffer at the hands of coalition forces when they have stood and fought.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Suffer

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

James Monroe

1817-1825Many culprits brought within our limits have been condemned to suffer death, the punishment due to that atrocious crime.

John Quincy Adams

1825-1829But among the maxims of political economy which the stewards of the public moneys should never suffer without urgent necessity to be transcended is that of keeping the expenditures of the year within the limits of its receipts.

Grover Cleveland

1885-1889; 1893-1897Nothing can relieve me from anxiety lest by any act of mine their interests may suffer, and nothing is needed to strengthen my resolution to engage every faculty and effort in the promotion of their welfare.

Calvin Coolidge

1923-1929Those who suffer the most harm will be the poor.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die unattended.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974I speak from my own heart, and the heart of my country, the deep concern we have for those who suffer, and those who sorrow.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Suffer

"Suffer" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 59.84% of the time. "Suffer" is used about 3,477 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)59.84%2,0814,170
Lexical Verb (base form)40.16%1,3975,738
                    Total100.00%3,477N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Suffer

Expressions using "suffer": make suffer suffer a crushing defeat suffer a defeat suffer a failure suffer a great pain suffer a repulse suffer a reverse suffer along with smb. suffer an affront suffer damage suffer deprivation suffer for suffer from suffer from asthma suffer from cold suffer from colic suffer from delusions suffer from fatigue suffer from smth. suffer from stage fright suffer from the cold suffer great wrongs suffer heavy losses suffer hell suffer hell on earth suffer in silence suffer losses suffer punishment suffer through To suffer a default you'll suffer for this!. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "suffer": suffer-ing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Suffer

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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good lyrics people stavesacre suffer why

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90 chronic from halitosis million more people suffer than

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7

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3

emotional sacrifice social suffer

6

suffer suffersystem.com system

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pain suffer tx

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in jock suffer yer

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child little painting suffer

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bad religion suffer

5

everyone ring suffer will

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ethical meaning reward sacrifice social suffer value

4

child king little stephen suffer

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allow child does god little suffer why

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masochism obtain pain success suffer

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lyrics staind suffer

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child cure in little search suffer

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Modern Translation: Suffer

Language Translations for "suffer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

uithou (abide, bear, carry out, endure, put, put up with), staan (abide, bear, carry out, endure, put, put up with, stand). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

vuaj (ache, agonize, grill, languish, pain), provoj (assay, attest, demonstrate, deprive, essay, establish, experience, fit on, make good, manifest, presume, pretend, prove, sample, savor, savour, show, substantiate, taste, test, try, try on, try out, validate, venture, witness), ndjej (forgive, pardon, remit, sensate, sense, smack, smelt), lejoj (admit, allow, authorise, authorize, let, license, permit, sanction, tolerate). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كابد (pain), ‏لاقى (encounter, experience, happen on, receive), ‏قاسى (bear, endure, experience, sustain, undergo), ‏تكبد (culminate, culmination, sufferance, sustain), ‏تحمل (afford, bear, bear up, bearing, decamp, defray, endure, firmness, have smb. over, hold out, incur, last, lump it, mizzle, pocket, put up with, see, stand, stick, stick it out, stomach, support, sustain, tighten, tolerate, undergo), ‏تألم (torture), ‏ترك (break, cast aside, discontinue, ditch, drop, drop it, drop out, lay aside, leave, leave about, let go, neglect, peg, quit, rap, resign, resignation, sign away, strand, unhand), ‏تدهور (break down, breakdown, crumble, decadence, decay, deteriorate, deterioration, drop, go to pot, go to the bad, impairment, retrogradation, run to seed, sour, tumble), ‏سمح (allow, allowed, authorise, authorize, go ahead, let, permit, pliable, see, warrant), ‏عانى (bear, brook, experience, know, pain, stick), ‏عاقب (administer, blister, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, discipline, mete, paddle, penalize, punish, rap, recompense, strafe, trounce), ‏خضع لعملية ما, ‏دفع الثمن. (various references)

   

Basque

  

sufritu (suffer to). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

страдам (dree, smart), разрешавам (allow, authorise, authorize, determine, knit up, let, licence, license, pass, permit, provide for, resolve, sanction), търпя (abide, accept, admit, bear, digest, endure, play along, put up with, stick, support, tolerate), толерирам, мъча се (agonize, labor, labour, seek, toil, try, tug, writhe), претърпявам (experience, have, meet with, undergo), пострадвам (come to grief), понасям (bear, bear off, bide, carry, carry off, digest, drag along, go, incur, play along, pocket, see, stand, stick, support, sweep away, take, tolerate, undergo), позволявам (admit, allow, authorise, authorize, enable, have, let, licence, license, permit, see), получавам наказание, патя (fare ill), измъчвам се (agonize, anguish, fret, squirm), излежавам наказание. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

遭受 (sustain). (various references)

   

Czech

  

snést (abide, Brook, endure, stand, stomach, take), snášet (bear, hold out, support, tolerate, undergo), zaznamenat (chalk up, notch, register, score, tally, write down), zakusit (endure, experience, try, undergo), utrpìt (receive), trpìt (have, undergo), mít (derive, experience, Harbor, harbour, have, keep, possess, to have). (various references)

   

Danish

  

gennemgå (abide, bear, endure, experience, live through, put up with, survive). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

naar buiten brengen (abide, bear, carry out, endure, put up with), dragen (abet, abide, bear, carry, carry out, endure, put up with, support, sustain, wear). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

suferi (abide, bear, endure, put up with), elporti (abide, bear, carry out, endure, put up with). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

líða (abide, bear, endure, pass, pass by, put up with). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

کشیدن (Chart, Drag, Draw, Drawl, Entrain, Experience, Figure, Hale, Haul, Heave, Lave, Lengthen, Peg, Pluck, Pull, Strain, Strap, String, Trace, Trawl, Weigh), تن دردادن به (Knuckle), تحمل کردن (Bear, Bide, Comport, Endure, Experience, Stomach, Support, Sustain, Tolerate, Undergo, Withstand), رنج بردن (Rack, Toil, Travail). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kärsiä (abide, bear, endure, go through, put up with, stand, tolerate). (various references)

   

French

  

subir (sustain), souffrir, endurer. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

lijen (abide, bear, endure, put up with). (various references)

   

German

  

leiden (abide, affliction, ailment, bear, complaint, distress, endure, illness, Leyden, malady, permit, put up with, sorrow, stand, suffering, to suffer, tolerate, tribulation, trouble, woes), erleiden (abide, agonize, bear, endure, incur, meet with, put up with, sustain), erdulden (abide, bear, endure, put up with, undergo, undergone), dulden (abide, acquiesce, bear, Brook, condone, connive, countenance, endure, permit, put up with, to acquiesce, to connive, to tolerate, tolerate). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πάσχω (ail), υποφέρω (bear, endure, lump, put up with, sustain, tolerate). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לכאוב (ache, feel pain, hurt, pain, smart, sore, sting), ל"תיסר (agonize, writhe), ל"תע ות (be tormented), ל"פ'ע (be hit, be hurt), לסבול (bear, endure, smart, stand, stomach, tolerate). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szenved (have a bad time, have a tough time, to be in pain, to be thwarted, to labor, to labour, to lose face, to smart, to sweat, to writhe, to writhe under sy's taunts), elvisel (abide, bear, bore, borne, endure, stood, sustain, to abide, to bear, to comport, to endure, to stand, to stomach, to support, to take it, to tolerate, tolerate, undergo). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

þola (abide, bear, endure, put up with, tolerate). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

sengsara (be miserable, misery, suffering), terbirit-birit (helter skelter), menderita. (various references)

   

Irish

  

fulaing. (various references)

   

Italian

  

soffrire (bear, endure, smart, suffering, sustain, undergo, woes), patire (pine, undergo). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(feel pain). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そう (all, aspect, bed, cellar, class, conception, countenance, depository, destroy, elevator, ever, ex-, feel pain, former, formerly, general, go around, godown, granary, gross, idea, layer, magazine, monk, never, once before, originate, phase, priest, seam, start, stream, thought, to accompany, to be added to, to be adjusted to, to become married, to comply with, to follow, to marry, to meet, to run along, to satisfy, to suit, treasury, warehouse, whole). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

생하십시". (various references)

   

Malay

  

derita ... menderita (abide, bear, endure, put up with). (various references)

   

Manx

  

surranse (bear, endure, resignation, stick out; sufferance, undergo), surral (allow, endure, permit, tolerate), lhiggey (act, act pretend, allow, broach, delay, discharge, fire, firing, go off, heave, ignore, let, let down, let off, letting, level, loose, permission, permit, pierce, remission, shoot, shoot up, shooting, slip, water pipe), fuillaghtyn (endurance, forbear, permit, put up, sufferance, tolerate), fuillagh (put up with, tolerate). (various references)

   

Occitan

  

sofrir, patir. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

sufri (abide, bear, endure, put up with). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uffersay

   

Polish

  

cierpieć. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

suportar (abet, abide, back, back up, bear, bear out, brace, carry out, dree, endure, lean, put up with, support, sustain, tolerate, upbear, uphold), sofrer (abide, ache, bear, endure, experience, forbear, have, moil, put up with, run, squirm, undergo), padecer (abide, bear, endure, feel, put up with). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

suferi (abide, ail, allow, bear, Brook, carry out, endure, experience, go through, have, languish, permit, put up with, smart, stand, stick, undergo), îndura (abide, bear, carry out, endure, experience, forbear, indurate, put up with, stick, support, sustain, undergo). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

страдать (dree, perish, suffered). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

crein (suffer for). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

stradati (perish), trpeti (abide, brook, do with, endure, put up, put up with, stand, thole), propatiti, pretrpeti (sustain, take, undergo), prepatiti (go through), patiti (dree, labor, labour), namučiti (bedevil, torment). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sufrir (bear a load, bleed, catch a tartar, come under, experience, go through, lose oneself, meet with, receive, sustain, take, trouble, undergo). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

pina (abide, bear, endure, miserable, poor, put up with). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lida (abide, bear, endure, pass, put up with, receive, sustain), utstå (endure, pass through). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทนทุกข์ทรมาน, อ"ทน (swallow). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zayiat vermek, zarar görmek (hurt), katlanmak (abide, accept, bear, Brook, crease, digest, do with, double, endure, face, face up to, go through, grin and bear it, last out, lump, lump it, put up with, sit down under, stand, stand the racket, stick, stick it, stick out, stomach, sustain, sweat out, take, take it, take one's medicine, tolerate, undergo), kıvranmak (agonize, be convulsed, be pinched, squirm, thrash, thrash about, twist, wriggle, writhe), izin vermek (allow, authorise, authorize, consent, empower, enable, excuse, give smb. notice, give smb. the green light, indulge, let, licence, license, permit, permit of, sanction, warrant), göz yummak (blink, blink at, condone, connive, excuse, face up to, have, leave unnoticed, let smth. pass unchallenged, overlook, pass by, permit of, tolerate, wink, wink at), cezasını çekmek (bear the penalty of, complete one's sentence, expiate, get one's deserts, pay the penalty of), azap çekmek (abide, bear, endure, put up with), acısını çekmek, acı çekmek (be in pain, be pinched, lament, sting), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

jepa зekmek (bear a burden), horlyk зekmek, horluk зekmek, зydamak (endure, withstand). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

страждати (be tormented, smart, throe), витерплювати (thole), зазнавати (experience, sustain, undergo), бути покараним. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

goddef (abide, allow, bear, brook, permit), dioddef (bear, suffering, wait). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

-hlupheka (abide, bear, endure, put up with). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Suffer

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

dolere, laboro, passa, passae, passam, passi, passo, passos, passum, passuros, passurus, passus, patere, pateretur, pateris, pati, patiamini, patiantur, patiar, patiaris, patiatur, patiebantur, patiebatur, patiemini, patiemur, patiens, patientem, patientes, patientia, patientibus, patientur, patieris, patietur, patimini, patimur, patior, patiri, patitur, patiuntur, perferant, perferentes, perfero, perferre, perferri, perlata, perlatum, perlatus, pertulerunt, pertuleruntque, pertulit, sino, sublata, sublati, sublatis, sublato, sublatoque, sublatum, sublatus, sufferatis, sufferentia, sufferentiam, suffert, suffertis, sustulerat, sustulerunt, sustuli, sustulimus, sustulissemus, sustulissent, sustulisti, sustulistis, sustulit. (various references)

Old English450-1100

dreogan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Suffer

LanguageDateSourceMark Chapter 7, Verse 12
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai ouketi afiete auton ouden poihsai tw patri autou h th mhtri autou
Latin405VulgateEt ultra non dimittitis eum quicquam facere patri suo aut matri
Old English990West Saxon& ofer þæt ge ne læteð hine anig þing.þanne his fæder odðe his moder
Middle English1395WyclifAnd ouer ye suffren not hym do ony thing to fadir or modir,
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd so ye soffre him no more to do ought for his father or his mother
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd ye suffer him no more to do aught for his father or his mother;
Basic English1964OgdenYou no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother;

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Suffer

LanguageMark Chapter 7, Verse 12
Cebuanosa ingon niini gipahigawas na ninyo siya sa pagbuhat ug bisan unsa alang sa iyang amahan o inahan,
Croatiantakvome više ne dopuštate ništa uèiniti za oca ili majku.
Danishda tilstede I ham ikke mere at gøre noget for sin Fader eller Moder,
DutchEn gij laat hem niet meer toe, iets aan zijn vader of zijn moeder te doen;
Finnishja niin te ette enää salli hänen antaa mitään avustusta isälleen tai äidilleen.
Frenchvous ne le laissez plus rien faire pour son père ou pour sa mère,
GaelicAgus thar sin cha leig sibh leis dad a dhianamh dha athair, no dha mhathair,
GermanUnd so laßt ihr hinfort ihn nichts tun seinem Vater oder seiner Mutter