Definition of suffers

"suffers" in the verb sense

1. suffer, endure

undergo or be subjected to

"He suffered the penalty"

"Many saints suffered martyrdom"

2. suffer, sustain, have, get

undergo (as of injuries and illnesses

"She suffered a fracture in the accident"

"He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"

"She got a bruise on her leg"

"He got his arm broken in the scuffle"

3. suffer

experience (emotional) pain

"Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers"

4. digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up

put up with something or somebody unpleasant

"I cannot bear his constant criticism"

"The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"

"he learned to tolerate the heat"

"She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

5. suffer

get worse

"His grades suffered"

6. suffer, hurt

feel pain or be in pain

7. hurt, ache, suffer

feel physical pain

"Were you hurting after the accident?"

8. suffer

feel unwell or uncomfortable

"She is suffering from the hot weather"

9. suffer

be given to

"She suffers from a tendency to talk too much"

10. suffer, meet

undergo or suffer

"meet a violent death"

"suffer a terrible fate"

11. suffer, lose

be set at a disadvantage

"This author really suffers in translation"

"The painting loses something in this light"

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Quotations for suffers

He that lives long suffers much. [ Proverb ]

The silent man still suffers wrong. [ J. P. Collier ]

Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales.
And the good suffers while the bad prevails. [ Homer ]

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over. [ Porteus ]

The enthusiast suffers his imagination to follow his heart. [ G. Crabb ]

One is alone in a crowd when one suffers, or when one loves. [ Rochepedre ]

He complains wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwreck. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. [ Southey ]

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. [ La Bruyère ]

The soul, ray of Heaven, invisible prisoner, suffers in its dungeon cruel sorrows. [ A. de Musset ]

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. [ Lavater ]

Mediocrity is less sensitive than genius, and therefore suffers less under nearly any possible exigency. [ William Winter ]

The mean man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom meanness withholds some important benefit. [ Emerson ]

Doubt insinuates itself into a soul that is dreaming; faith comes down into one that struggles and suffers.

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem. [ Marc Andre ]

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it. [ De Tocqueville ]

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it: but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. [ Burke ]

The young man may applaud the negligent and pusillanimous instructor; but when that man, no longer young, suffers the result of that neglect and pusillanimity, it is well if a better spirit had taught him to mention the name of that instructor without bitter execration. [ F. Wayland ]

suffers in Scrabble®

The word suffers is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters suffers:

SUFFERS
(102 = 52 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word suffers

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In suffers

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suffers in Words With Friends™

The word suffers is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters suffers:

SUFFERS
(113 = 78 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word suffers

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Words within the letters of suffers

2 letter words in suffers (3 words)

3 letter words in suffers (8 words)

4 letter words in suffers (15 words)

5 letter words in suffers (8 words)

6 letter words in suffers (3 words)

7 letter words in suffers (1 word)

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Words containing the sequence suffers

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