Word Finder - suffer

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To undergo hardship.

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Is anyone here afraid of suffering hardship?

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To feel pain.

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At least he didn't suffer when he died in the car crash.

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To become worse.

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If you keep partying like this, your school-work will suffer.

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To endure, undergo.

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I've been suffering your insults for years.

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To allow.

Don't let him suffer because of me.'

I suffer for my own sins,' and he wept bitter tears.

I love you all and have done no harm to anyone; why must I suffer so?

They didn't suffer, which was good.

As mentioned earlier, farmers suffer when they do not have reliable markets for their goods.

Darian closed his eyes and watched the discordant memories flickering through her mind, not wanting her to suffer alone.

If too closely packed, the soil particles present mechanical obstacles to growth; if too retentive of moisture, the root-hairs suffer, as already hinted; if too open or over-drained, the plant succumbs to drought.

The three-field system of cropping a patch of land until its fertility is exhausted, and then allowing it to revert to the primeval condition, is still pursued, and both landowners and peasantry suffer from want of capital and lack of agricultural training.

There are those who, like cormorants and ostriches, can digest all sorts of this, even after the fullest dinner of meats and vegetables, for they suffer nothing to be wasted.

The terms of agrarian contracts and leases (except in districts where mezzadria prevails in its essential form), are in many regions disadvantageous to the laborers, who suffer from the obligation to provide guarantees for payment of rent, for repayment of seed corn and for the division of products.

Tomorrow I shall have to suffer, so today I'll go and rest.

I wanted you to suffer a long, painful death and was willing to do whatever it took to make that a reality.

She didn't like seeing someone else suffer the way she did every time she thought of Cody or Jake or others dying.

He knew if he did anything, Katie would suffer.

Seeing the mare suffer twisted Carmen's stomach into a knot.

It is noticed that labourers employed in deep mines worked by shafts suffer less from fever than do those who are engaged in stripping the alluvial deposits.

She had gone home to sulk causing, in her mind, Fred to suffer hours of grief and agony from her selfish inaction.

No one else will suffer.

The Rational Psychology formulates immortality on the ground that the immaterial soul has no parts to suffer decay - the argument which Kant's Critique of Pure Reason " refutes" with special reference to the statement of it by Moses Mendelssohn.

Well, one day King Frost was trying to think of some good that he could do with his treasure; and suddenly he concluded to send some of it to his kind neighbour, Santa Claus, to buy presents of food and clothing for the poor, that they might not suffer so much when King Winter went near their homes.

I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts, and not wait till they constitute a majority of one, before they suffer the right to prevail through them.

More important, though, was the fact that he believed the child should not suffer for the sins of the parent.

I couldn't let him suffer the fate of the others.

I won't let him suffer as I have, as my forefathers have.

Maybe in a way he blamed her for letting Ed suffer as well.

The other girls felt sorry that she should suffer for so small a fault.

The Chinese immigrants suffer chiefly from fever of a malarial type, from beri-beri, a species of tropical dropsy, and from dysentery.

Sir George Darwin finds a possible explanation of these in the screwing motion which the earth would suffer in its plastic state.

These spires were like great spear-points, and if they tumbled upon one of them they were likely to suffer serious injury.

And they have had to suffer for it.

She'd be lucky to walk again soon, and without medical supplies…with her luck lately, she wouldn't die from infection, just suffer for the rest of her life.

He won a signal victory over the Persians in 53 0, and successfully conducted a campaign against them, until forced, by the rashness of his soldiers, to join battle and suffer defeat in the following year.

The landowners are often poor, and suffer from want of capital and lack of enterprise.

The quality of the last is a matter of great importance; when it is unsuitable, the boilers will suffer, and the installation of a water-softening plant may save more in the expenses of boiler maintenance than it costs to operate.

I want you alive, but I don't care how much you suffer.

She's had centuries of learning to control it because ultimately she is the one who will suffer for any poor decisions.

Vico's writings suffer through their author's not having followed a regular course of studies, and his style is very involved.

The Republicans, however, secured the electoral votes of Nevada in 1872 and in 1876, and in 1878 were again in full control, only to suffer defeat in 1880.

The cocoa nut, maize, sugar-cane, coffee, cotton, rice and tobacco (which last does not suffer like other crops from the locusts) do well.

The patient can't really get worse and can suffer no real harm.

No--in this case I would rather suffer evil the natural way.

Let us write her a letter at once, and she'll come here and all will be explained, or else, my dear boy, let me tell you it's quite likely you'll have to suffer for it.

He has not a character like us women who, when we suffer, can weep away our sorrows.

If she kept that up, her grades would suffer.

If your father falls completely to the madness, your people will suffer more than they do now.

He refuses the waters, even knowing his people still suffer.

The selfish side of me wants to tell you to get away from him, because I want him to suffer.

Unfortunately several of these fertile tracts suffer severely from malaria (q.v.), and especially the great plain adjoining the Gulf of Tarentum, which in the early ages of history was surrounded by a girdle of Greek cities—some of which attained to almost unexampled prosperity—has for centuries past been given up to almost complete desolation.

His material interests certainly did not suffer by compliance.

Care and intelligence are especially needful with certain insecticides such as poisonous gases, or the operators may suffer.