Antonyms for suffers
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : suhf-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsʌf ər |
- abstain
- aid
- alleviate
- assist
- assuage
- avoid
- calm
- comfort
- deny
- disagree
- disallow
- disapprove
- discontinue
- dispute
- dissent
- dodge
- expel
- fight
- forbid
- give
- help
- hide
- hold
- keep
- let go
- misunderstand
- neglect
- offer
- oppose
- please
- prevent
- prohibit
- protest
- refuse
- reject
- relieve
- resist
- rise
- shun
- soothe
- stop
- strengthen
- surrender
- veto
- withhold
- yield
Definition of suffers
Origin :- early 13c., "to be made to undergo, endure" (pain, death, punishment, judgment, grief), from Anglo-French suffrir, Old French sufrir, from Vulgar Latin *sufferire, variant of Latin sufferre "to bear, undergo, endure, carry or put under," from sub "up, under" (see sub-) + ferre "to carry" (see infer).
- Replaced Old English þolian, þrowian. Meaning "to meekly submit to hardship" is from late 13c. That of "to undergo" (distress, suffering, etc.) is mid-14c. Meaning "to tolerate, allow" something to occur or continue is recorded from mid-13c. Related: Suffered; suffering.
- verb be in pain
- verb endure, permit
- As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
- But to be good and brutally frank about it, what she suffers just now doesn't count with me.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- And it is the race that suffers and rots; the sins of the mother must be visited on the child.
- Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
- "Of the pains of love one suffers but does not die," she whispered.
- Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
- How she works, how she studies, how she suffers, are vividly portrayed.
- Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
- This outfit knows what I suffers with that Laredo wife of mine.
- Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis
- Dic is a true, pure man, who has been enticed into error and suffers for it.
- Extract from : « A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties » by Charles Major
- It is your genial fellow, with mobile features, that suffers so terribly from age.
- Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
- No doubt it would, and so it suffers from every commercial change.
- Extract from : « Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 » by Various
- It is not what one suffers that kills one, but what one knows that other people see that one suffers.
- Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope
Synonyms for suffers
- abide
- accept
- ache
- acquiesce
- admit
- agonize
- ail
- allow
- be affected
- be at disadvantage
- be convulsed
- be handicapped
- be impaired
- be racked
- be wounded
- bear
- bear with
- bleed
- bow
- brave
- brook
- carry the torch
- complain of
- concede
- countenance
- deteriorate
- droop
- encounter
- endure
- experience
- fall off
- feel
- feel wretched
- flag
- get
- go through
- grieve
- have
- have a bad time
- hurt
- indulge
- know
- languish
- let
- license
- live with
- pain
- put up with
- receive
- sanction
- see
- sicken
- sit and take it
- smart
- stand
- stomach
- submit
- support
- sustain
- swallow
- sweat
- take
- take it
- tolerate
- undergo
- wait out
- writhe
- yield
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