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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Sufferance :: Sufferance (n.) Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave.
Solatium :: Solatium (n.) Anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings..
Perpession :: Perpession (n.) Suffering; endurance.
Unbending :: Unbending (a.) Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things.
Patience :: Patience (n.) Sufferance; permission.
Suffer :: Suffer (v. i.) To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death..
Stave :: Stave (n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask..
Heavily :: Heavily (adv.) As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully..
Bide :: Bide (v. t.) To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo.
Patient :: Patient (a.) Forbearing; long-suffering.
Sympathy :: Sympathy (n.) Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.
Passionary :: Passionary (n.) A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs.
Prove :: Prove (v. t.) To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.
Dishevel :: Dishevel (v. t.) To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle.
Wear :: Wear (v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance..
Famish :: Famish (v. i.) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
Soak :: Soak (v. t.) To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like..
Crucifixion :: Crucifixion (n.) Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial.
Unsufferable :: Unsufferable (a.) Insufferable.
Inflict :: Inflict (v. t.) To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal..
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