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SUFFERABLENESS

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suf⋅fer

  [suhf-er]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering.
2. to sustain injury, disadvantage, or loss: One's health suffers from overwork. The business suffers from lack of capital.
3. to undergo a penalty, as of death: The traitor was made to suffer on the gallows.
4. to endure pain, disability, death, etc., patiently or willingly.
–verb (used with object)
5. to undergo, be subjected to, or endure (pain, distress, injury, loss, or anything unpleasant): to suffer the pangs of conscience.
6. to undergo or experience (any action, process, or condition): to suffer change.
7. to tolerate or allow: I do not suffer fools gladly.
Origin:
1200–50; ME suff(e)ren < L sufferre, equiv. to suf- suf- + ferre to bear 1 ; cf. OF sofrir < VL *sufferīre

Related forms:
suf⋅fer⋅a⋅ble, adjective
suf⋅fer⋅a⋅ble⋅ness, noun
suf⋅fer⋅a⋅bly, adverb
suf⋅fer⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
5. sustain. 7. stomach, stand, abide.
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suf·fer·a·ble   (sŭf'ər-ə-bəl, sŭf'rə-)   
adj.  Possible to suffer, endure, or permit; tolerable: sufferable punishment; sufferable difficulties.
suf'fer·a·ble·ness n., suf'fer·a·bly adv.
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Word Origin & History

suffer 
c.1225, "to undergo, endure" (pain, death, punishment, judgment, grief), from Anglo-Fr. suffrir, from O.Fr. sufrir, from V.L. *sufferire, variant of L. sufferre "to bear, undergo, endure, carry or put under," from sub "up, under" + ferre "to carry" (see infer). Replaced O.E. þolian, þrowian. Meaning "to tolerate, allow" is recorded from c.1290.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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