Definition of Suffer

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Suffer

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.

To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.

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.

To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.

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.

To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.

To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.

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Suffer Quotations

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
Buddha

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas Jefferson

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein

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. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis

I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
Muhammad Ali

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Suffer Translations

suffer in Dutch is naar buiten brengen, dragen
suffer in French is souffrissons, souffrissent, souffrissez, souffris
suffer in German is Dulder, leiden, leiden, erdulde
suffer in Italian is soffrire, patire
suffer in Latin is laboro, perfero, sino
suffer in Portuguese is sofra
suffer in Spanish is sufrir, dolencia

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