Suffer

German Meaning

leiden

erleiden

dulden

erdulden

erfahren

erleben

kranken

davontragen

durchleiden

sich quälen

ausstehen

English Meaning

  1. To feel pain or distress; sustain loss, injury, harm, or punishment.
  2. To tolerate or endure evil, injury, pain, or death. See Synonyms at bear1.
  3. To appear at a disadvantage: "He suffers by comparison with his greater contemporary” ( Albert C. Baugh).
  4. To undergo or sustain (something painful, injurious, or unpleasant): "Ordinary men have always had to suffer the history their leaders were making” ( Herbert J. Muller).
  5. To experience; undergo: suffer a change in staff.
  6. To endure or bear; stand: would not suffer fools.
  7. To permit; allow: "They were not suffered to aspire to so exalted a position as that of streetcar conductor” ( Edmund S. Morgan).