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# suffer

«suffer» in Mova's school dictionary: **to feel pain, illness, sadness or other bad things** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (suffer, suffers, suffered, suffering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To suffer is to feel pain, illness, sadness or other bad things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffer/#m1)

2) To have a bad thing happen to you: suffer a defeat, suffer damage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffer/#m2)

3) To become worse because of something: your work will suffer if you do not sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffer/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in health and science: animals suffer if not cared for; people suffer from hay fever or asthma. In history and stories: people suffered in wars and famines. Phrases: "suffer from", "suffer in silence".

### examples

- She suffers from hay fever in the spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffer/#x1)
- Animals should never be left to suffer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffer/#x2)
- The team suffered a big defeat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffer/#x3)
- The town suffered damage in the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffer/#x4)
- Your schoolwork will suffer if you stay up too late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffer/#x5)
- Don't suffer in silence; tell an adult if you are hurt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffer/#x6)
- Then everybody in the jungle suffers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffer/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: suffered, suffering (one r is not doubled because the stress is on "SUF"). Noun: suffering. Use "suffer from" with illnesses.

### In the corpora

- ["Confused", said of an old person by carers, often means suffering from dementia.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/9/)
- [When one person in a team does not do their part, the whole team usually suffers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play/17/)
- [Both sides in the Crusades did brave things and cruel things, and ordinary people of all three faiths suffered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/19/)
- [When someone has suffered for a long time, people can feel relief that the pain is over and great sadness at once.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/58-when-a-grandparent-dies/15/)
- [Therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.528/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «suffer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suffer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.