suffer

verb

ADVERB

▪ a lot, badly, enormously, greatly, grievously, horribly, immensely, mightily, severely, terribly, tremendously

▪

This area suffered very badly in the storms.

▪ needlessly

▪

Thousands of children in the world today suffer needlessly.

▪ disproportionately

▪

Poor families suffer disproportionately from asthma.

▪ accordingly

▪ unnecessarily

▪ economically, financially

▪ emotionally, mentally, physically

▪ alone

▪

I'm sorry that you have to suffer alone like this.

VERB + SUFFER

▪ be likely to, tend to

▪

Premature babies are more likely to suffer from breathing difficulties in childhood.

▪ continue to

▪ deserve to

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No child deserves to suffer for a parent's mistakes.

PREPOSITION

▪ for

▪

I played tennis yesterday and I know I shall suffer for it today.

▪ from

▪

She suffers from asthma.

▪ under

▪

people suffering under repressive regimes

▪ with

▪

He suffers terribly with migraines.

PHRASES

▪ suffer in silence

▪

They were just expected to suffer in silence.

Suffer is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑country, ↑credibility, ↑economy, ↑morale, ↑patient, ↑quality, ↑reputation, ↑schooling, ↑victim

Suffer is used with these nouns as the object: ↑abuse, ↑accident, ↑agony, ↑ailment, ↑anguish, ↑arthritis, ↑assault, ↑attack, ↑beating, ↑bereavement, ↑blow, ↑bombardment, ↑bout, ↑breakdown, ↑bruise, ↑burn, ↑casualty, ↑complication, ↑concussion, ↑consequence, ↑convulsion, ↑cost, ↑cramp, ↑crisis, ↑cruelty, ↑cut, ↑damage, ↑death, ↑decline, ↑decrease, ↑defeat, ↑delay, ↑delusion, ↑depression, ↑deprivation, ↑dip, ↑disability, ↑disadvantage, ↑disappointment, ↑disaster, ↑discomfort, ↑discrimination, ↑disruption, ↑distress, ↑disturbance, ↑downturn, ↑drop, ↑effect, ↑electric shock, ↑embarrassment, ↑erosion, ↑execution, ↑exposure, ↑failure, ↑fall, ↑famine, ↑fate, ↑feeling, ↑fit, ↑fool, ↑fracture, ↑graze, ↑guilt, ↑haemorrhage, ↑hallucination, ↑handicap, ↑harassment, ↑hardship, ↑harm, ↑heart attack, ↑hit, ↑horror, ↑humiliation, ↑ill-treatment, ↑illness, ↑imprisonment, ↑inconvenience, ↑infection, ↑injury, ↑injustice, ↑insult, ↑intimidation, ↑isolation, ↑lapse, ↑loneliness, ↑loss, ↑malnutrition, ↑miscarriage, ↑misery, ↑misfortune, ↑mishap, ↑mutation, ↑neglect, ↑neurosis, ↑nightmare, ↑oppression, ↑ordeal, ↑pain, ↑pang, ↑penalty, ↑persecution, ↑plague, ↑prejudice, ↑problem, ↑puncture, ↑punishment, ↑reaction, ↑rebuff, ↑recession, ↑recurrence, ↑reduction, ↑relapse, ↑remorse, ↑repercussion, ↑repression, ↑reprisal, ↑retaliation, ↑reversal, ↑reverse, ↑setback, ↑shock, ↑shortage, ↑sickness, ↑side effect, ↑spasm, ↑stigma, ↑strain, ↑stress, ↑stroke, ↑swing, ↑symptom, ↑taunt, ↑thrashing, ↑torment, ↑torture, ↑tragedy, ↑trauma, ↑treatment, ↑twinge, ↑violence, ↑withdrawal, ↑wound, ↑wrath, ↑wrong