suffer synonyms

suffer

v.

  1. To feel pain

    undergo, experience, ache, smart, be in pain, be wounded, agonize, grieve, be racked, be convulsed, languish, droop, flag, sicken, endure torture, get it in the neck, look green about the gills*, complain of, be affected with, go hard with, flinch at, not feel like anything, labor under; see also hurt 4.

    Antonyms recover*, be relieved, be restored.

  2. To endure

    bear, sustain, put up with; see endure 2.

  3. To permit

    allow, acquiesce, admit, let, concede, indulge, connive at, stretch a point, authorize, sanction, yield, bow, submit, tolerate; see also allow 1. See syn. study at allow, endure.

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