Synonyms for suffer
Definitions
- v. 1
To feel pain.
At least he didn't suffer when he died in the car crash.
- v. 2
To become worse.
If you keep partying like this, your school-work will suffer.
- v. 3
To endure, undergo.
I've been suffering your insults for years.
- v. 4
To undergo hardship.
Many artists suffer before becoming famous.
Related words
- Word family
- sufferable sufferance sufferer suffering
- Is a kind of
- feel perceive
Forms
- Past participle
- suffered
e.g. suffered → endured, tolerated, beared, abid…
Choose the right word
Suffer, in the sense of mild concession, is now becoming rare, its place being taken by allow, permit, or tolerate.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- tolerate I would say that I tolerate cold better than heat.
- endure They had to endure great hardship during the war.
- undergo Mary wants to undergo breast augmentation surgery.
- abide We all must abide by laws to live in any society.
- hurt I don't want to hurt Tom, but I will if I have to.
- ache Does it have anything to do with the stomach ache?
By length
- 3 letters
- get1, let1
- 4 letters
- have1, take1, feel1, meet1, lose1, pass1, pain1, hurt1, bear1, ache1, bide1, wark1
- 5 letters
- stand1, allow2, spend1, smart1, labor2, admit2, brook1, abide2, wring1
- 6 letters
- accept2, labour2, permit2, endure2, grieve1, worsen2
- 7 letters
- support2, stomach2, decline2, sustain2, undergo3, anguish2, agonize3, agonise
- 8 letters
- tolerate3
- 10 letters
- experience4
- 11 letters
- deteriorate5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (allow2 = 2 syllables).