suffer

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

v. t. endure, encounter, undergo, experience, sustain; allow, permit, tolerate. See feeling, permission. —v. i. endure pain, be troubled, ache; ail, be ill. See pain, disease.

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(Roget's IV) v.

1. [To feel pain]

Syn. 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 .

Ant. recover*, be relieved, be restored.

2. [To endure]

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

3. [To permit]

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

See Synonym Study at allow , endure .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) v.

1. experience pain hurt, ache, agonize, be racked with pain, writhe in pain, endure, grieve.

2. experience undergo, endure, bear, encounter, live with, *stick it out, *tough it out, tolerate, withstand.

3. allow tolerate, permit, admit, grant.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb 1. To feel, show, or express grief: grieve, lament, mourn, sorrow. See HAPPY. 2. To participate in or partake of personally: experience, feel, go through, have, know, meet1 (with), see, taste (of), undergo. Archaic: prove. Idiom: run up against. See PARTICIPATE. 3. To put up with: abide, accept, bear, brook2, endure, go, stand (for), stomach, support, sustain, swallow, take, tolerate, withstand. Informal: lump2. Idioms: take it, take it lying down. See ACCEPT. 4. To neither forbid nor prevent: allow, have, let, permit, tolerate. See ALLOW.