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# sufferer

«sufferer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who feels pain, trouble or harm, often for a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (sufferers)

### meaning for a pupil

A sufferer is a person who feels pain, trouble or harm, often for a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sufferer/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, people who are punished or in pain, or who are ill or hurt

### examples

- The sufferers cried out in pain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sufferer/#x1)
- He was a sufferer from a bad cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sufferer/#x2)
- The sufferers were given food and water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sufferer/#x3)

### note

counting sufferers is counting people; nothing else changes

### Trees and pragmatics

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