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suffer (iou)

suffer verb. ME.
[Anglo-Norman suffrir, soeffrir, -er, Old French sof(f)rir (mod. souffrir) from Proto-Romance alt. of Latin sufferre, formed as SUB- + ferre bear.]
I. Undergo.
a. verb trans. Have (something harmful or painful) inflicted or imposed on one; submit to (pain, punishment, death, etc.); undergo, experience, be subjected to, (esp. something unpleasant or painful). ME.
Sloan Wilson The man..landed wrong and suffered a compound fracture of the right thigh. Scotsman Less fortunate concerns..have suffered a setback. M. Frayn The discomfiture Fiddlingchild would certainly suffer when he found out exactly what..Anna was feeling. A. Cross She had chosen to die rather than suffer recurring cancer.
b. verb intrans. Be in pain or distress; undergo pain, punishment, death, etc. (Foll. by from a disease etc.) ME.
A. Miller How can I bring you from a rich country to suffer in a poor country? G. Vidal I suffer from a most painful form of gout.
verb intrans. Hold out, wait patiently; be long-suffering. ME-M16.
verb intrans. Be the object of an action, be acted on, be passive. Now rare. LME.
verb trans. Endure the stress or painfulness of; bear, stand. obsolete exc. dial. LME.
verb trans. Inflict pain on. obsolete exc. dial. L15.
verb intrans.
a. Be put to death as a punishment, be executed; spec. undergo martyrdom. Now arch. or literary. M16.
b. Be killed or destroyed. rare (Shakes.). Only in E17.
verb intrans. Sustain damage or loss; be injured or impaired; be at fault. (Foll. by from, under.) L16.
F. R. Wilson The edifice suffered in the civil wars. R. G. Collingwood My Health was beginning to suffer from..overwork. N. Farah Your language suffers from lack of originality.
II. Tolerate.
verb trans. Endure the existence, presence, or activity of; put up with, tolerate. Also foll. by to do. ME.
suffer fools (gladly) tolerate incompetence or foolishness (usu. in neg. contexts).
S. Beckett He suffered her to dress him.
verb intrans. & refl. Allow oneself to be treated in a certain way; submit or consent to be or do something. arch. ME.
verb trans. Allow or permit (a person) to do something. Formerly also, allow (a person) to have (a thing). arch. ME.
verb intrans. Allow a certain thing to be done. ME-E17.
sufferer noun (a) a person who suffers pain, hardship, etc. (freq. foll. by from); (b) a person who permits something to be done; (c) a person who is killed or executed, now spec. a martyr; (d) (now rare) a patient: LME.

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