Definition of suffer

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Suffer (v. t.) To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.

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Labor :: Labor (n.) To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
Penance :: Penance (n.) Pain; sorrow; suffering.
Condemn :: Condemn (v. t.) To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty..
Endurance :: Endurance (n.) The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience..
Forbearing :: Forbearing (a.) Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering.
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on..
Energy :: Energy (n.) Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive..
Co-sufferer :: Co-sufferer (n.) One who suffers with another.
Neglect :: Neglect (adv.) Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts..
Try :: Try (v. t.) To subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to.
Grieve :: Grieve (v. t.) To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try.
Chasuble :: Chasuble (n.) The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle..
Passibility :: Passibility (n.) The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility.
Bear :: Bear (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change..
Twinge :: Twinge (v. i.) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges..
Permit :: Permit (v. t.) To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.
Dilapidation :: Dilapidation (n.) The pulling down of a building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay..
Famish :: Famish (v. i.) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land..
Pathematic :: Pathematic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering..
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