5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Suffer \Suf"fer\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Suffered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Suffering}.] [OE. suffren, soffren, OF. sufrir, sofrir, F. souffrir, (assumed) LL. sofferire, for L. sufferre; sub under + ferre to bear, akin to E. bear. See {Bear} to support.] 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. Our spirit and strength entire, Strongly to suffer and support our pains. --Milton. 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. If your more ponderous and settled project May suffer alteration. --Shak. 4. To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate. Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. --Lev. xix. 17. I suffer them to enter and possess. --Milton. Syn: To permit; bear; endure; support; sustain; allow; admit; tolerate. See {Permit}. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Suffering \Suf"fer*ing\, noun The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs. ''Souls in sufferings tried.'' --Keble. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Suffering \Suf"fer*ing\, adjective Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc. -- {Suf"fer*ing*ly}, adverb From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: suffering adjective 1: troubled by pain or loss; "suffering refugees" 2: very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" [syn: {miserable}, {wretched}] noun 1: a state of acute pain [syn: {agony}, {excruciation}] 2: misery resulting from affliction [syn: {woe}] 3: psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress" [syn: {distress}, {hurt}] 4: feelings of mental or physical pain [syn: {hurt}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 73 Moby Thesaurus words for "suffering": Schmerz, ache, aches and pains, aching, admissive, adversity, afflicted, affliction, agonized, agony, allowing, blow, consenting, convulsed, cramp, crucified, cut, discomfort, distress, distressed, dolor, grief, hardship, harrowed, hurt, hurting, in distress, in pain, indulgent, injury, lacerated, lax, lenient, lesion, malaise, martyred, martyrized, misery, misfortune, nasty blow, nonprohibitive, on the rack, pain, pained, pang, passion, permissive, permitting, racked, shock, sore, sore spot, spasm, stress, stress of life, stroke, tender spot, throes, tolerant, tolerating, torment, tormented, torture, tortured, trial, tribulation, twisted, under the harrow, unprohibitive, wound, wounded, wrench, wrung

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