- (v.i.) To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.
- (v.i.) 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.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.i.) To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.
- (v.t.) To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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