Suffers meaning

Howie doesn't have to work but he still suffers from head trauma, is pretty depressed and frankly, doesn't know what to do with himself.

Broadly speaking, the forests here yield to steppes, and the soil is very fertile; but the whole region suffers periodically from drought.

Fruit suffers much from the larvae of the Geometridae, the socalled "looper-larvae" or " canker-worms."

In course of time the star, with its expansive force diminished, suffers encroachments from the neighbouring vortices, and at length they catch it up. If the ' Princip. part ii.

Butler's argument is that the individual suffers (and feels that he suffers deservedly) from neglecting these.