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1. A state of acute pain
   - agony, excruciation
    
2. Misery resulting from affliction
   - woe
    
3. Psychological suffering
   - distress, hurt
    
4. Feelings of mental or physical pain
   - hurt

1. Troubled by pain or loss
   "suffering refugees"
    
2. Very unhappy; full of misery
   "a message of hope for suffering humanity"
   - miserable, wretched

1. Undergo or be subjected to
   "He suffered the penalty"; "Many saints suffered martyrdom"
   - endure
    
2. Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
   "She suffered a fracture in the accident"
   - sustain, have, get
    
3. Experience (emotional) pain
   "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers"
    
4. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant
   - digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, put up
    
5. Get worse
   "His grades suffered"
    
6. Feel pain or be in pain
   - hurt
    
7. Feel physical pain
   - hurt, ache
    
8. Feel unwell or uncomfortable
   "She is suffering from the hot weather"
    
9. Be given to
   "She suffers from a tendency to talk too much"
    
10. Undergo or suffer
    "suffer a terrible fate"
    - meet
     
11. Be set at a disadvantage
    "This author really suffers in translation"
    - lose

Derived forms: sufferings

See also: sufferance, sufferer, troubled, unhappy

Type of: allow, be, be given, comprehend, countenance, decline, experience, feel, get, go through, have, hurting, incline, lean, let, miserableness, misery, pain, painfulness, perceive, permit, receive, run, see, tend, worsen, wretchedness

Antonym: be well, enjoy

Encyclopedia: Suffer