suffer

suffer is a 6-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.
3. transitive verb. 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.
4. transitive verb. To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.
5. intransitive verb. 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.
6. intransitive verb. To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.
7. intransitive verb. To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.
8. verb. feel pain or be in pain

   Synonyms: hurt

9. verb. undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)

   "She suffered a fracture in the accident"

   "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"

   Synonyms: get, have, sustain

10. verb. feel unwell or uncomfortable

    "She is suffering from the hot weather"

11. verb. get worse

    "His grades suffered"

12. verb. be set at a disadvantage

    "This author really suffers in translation"

    Synonyms: lose

13. verb. put up with something or somebody unpleasant

    "I cannot bear his constant criticism"

    "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"

    Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, stand, stomach, support, tolerate

14. verb. experience (emotional) pain

    "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers"

15. verb. undergo or be subjected to

    "He suffered the penalty"

    "Many saints suffered martyrdom"

    Synonyms: endure

16. verb. undergo or suffer

    "meet a violent death"

    "suffer a terrible fate"

    Synonyms: meet

17. verb. feel physical pain

    "Were you hurting after the accident?"

    Synonyms: ache, hurt

18. verb. be given to

    "She suffers from a tendency to talk too much"

Synonyms

hurt, get, have, sustain, lose, abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, stand, stomach, support, tolerate, meet, ache

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in suffer:

ruffes

Common word forms

suffers, suffered, sufferer, suffering, sufferable

Words from these letters

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