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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sufferer \Suf"fer*er\, noun
1. One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea.
2. One who permits or allows.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sufferer
noun
1: a person suffering from an illness [syn: {sick person}, {diseased person}]
2: one who suffers for the sake of principle [syn: {martyr}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "sufferer": apoplectic, arthritic, case, consumptive, dyspeptic, epileptic, incurable, inpatient, invalid, martyr, object of compassion, outpatient, patient, poor devil, prey, rheumatic, shut-in, sick person, spastic, terminal case, the sick, valetudinarian, victim, wretch
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