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| 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. |
| 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. |
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