1. (v.i.)suffer to undergo or feel pain or great distress.
2. suffer to sustain injury, disadvantage, or loss.
3. suffer to endure or be afflicted with something temporarily or chronically: to suffer with a cold; to suffer from parkinsonism.
4. suffer to undergo a penalty, as of death.
5. (v.t.)suffer to undergo, be subjected to, or endure (pain, distress, injury, loss, or anything unpleasant).
6. suffer to undergo or experience (any action, process, or condition): to suffer change.
7. suffer to tolerate or allow: I do not suffer fools gladly.
Etymology: (1200–50; < L sufferre=suf-suf - +ferre to bear1)
Definition of 'suffer'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (verb)suffer, endure undergo or be subjected to "He suffered the penalty"; "Many saints suffered martyrdom"
2. (verb)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. (verb)suffer experience (emotional) pain "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers"
4. (verb)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. (verb)suffer get worse "His grades suffered"
6. (verb)suffer, hurt feel pain or be in pain
7. (verb)hurt, ache, suffer feel physical pain "Were you hurting after the accident?"
8. (verb)suffer feel unwell or uncomfortable "She is suffering from the hot weather"
9. (verb)suffer be given to "She suffers from a tendency to talk too much"
10. (verb)suffer, meet undergo or suffer "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate"
11. (verb)suffer, lose be set at a disadvantage "This author really suffers in translation"
1. (verb)suffer to experience physical or emotional pain We don't want our dog to suffer any more.
2. suffer suffer from to have a particular physical or emotional problem He suffers from epilepsy/depression.
3. suffer to get an injury or sudden illness Did he suffer a heart attack?
4. suffer to experience sth difficult or unpleasant The team suffered another defeat last night.
Definition of 'suffer'
Webster Dictionary
1. (verb)suffer 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
2. (verb)suffer to endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under
3. (verb)suffer 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
4. (verb)suffer to allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate
5. (verb)suffer 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
6. (verb)suffer to undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death
7. (verb)suffer to be injured; to sustain loss or damage
Sense: to undergo, endure or bear pain, misery etc He suffered terrible pain from his injuries; The crash killed him instantly; – he didn't suffer at all; I'll make you suffer for this insolence.
Definitions of suffer 
Afrikaans: pyn verduur
Arabic: يُعاني
Bulgarian: (из)мъчвам (се)
Brazilian: sofrer
Czech: trpět
German: leiden
Danish: lide af; lide
Greek: υποφέρω
Spanish: sufrir, padecer
Estonian: kannatama, piinlema
Farsi: درد كشيدن
Finnish: kärsiä
French: souffrir
Hebrew: לִסבּוֹל
Hindi: कष्ट पाना, दुख भोगना
Croatian: trpjeti, patiti
Hungarian: (el)szenved
Indonesian: menderita
Icelandic: þjást
Italian: soffrire
Japanese: 苦しむ
Korean: 고통받다
Lithuanian: kentėti, kęsti
Latvian: ciest (sāpes u.tml.)
Malay: merasakan sakitnya
Dutch: lijden
Norwegian: lide, ta skade
Polish: cierpieć
Persian: درد كشيدن
Pashto: درد زغمل
Portuguese: sofrer
Romanian: a suferi
Russian: страдать
Slovak: trpieť
Slovenian: trpeti
Serbian: patiti
Swedish: lida, få utstå, sota för
Thai: ทนทุกข์ทรมาน
Turkish: çekmek
Taiwanese: 受痛苦
Ukrainian: страждати; зносити
Urdu: جھیلنا
Vietnamese: đau khổ, chịu đựng
Chinese: 受痛苦
