0 to experience physical or mental pain: --
1 to experience or show the effects of something bad: --
When you're working such long hours, it's inevitable that your marriage will start to suffer.
[ + obj + -ing verb ] I had to suffer her father moaning for half an hour on the phone last night!
If you go and eat three helpings of dessert, you'll just have to suffer the consequences!
The city suffered another blow last month with the closure of the local car factory.
The Democrats suffered a crushing defeat in the last election.
2 to experience or show the effects of something bad: --
3 to experience physical or mental pain: --
We then quantify the stretching by considering the total stretch suffered during this finite period of time.
Assessing the larger numbers of women suffering severe maternal morbidity would vastly increase their workload.
Unfortunately she suffered complications in a later pregnancy and the stitch had to be removed.
While the text is hugely informative, it suffers from a number of important shortcomings.
Narrative form integrates situations and context, and less salient cues, to infer whether an emotion indicates suffering or something else.
His reputation suffered after his death (his style did not develop during the last few decades of his life) and has still not been rehabilitated.
Under that circumstance, both quality of caregiving and infant development suffered.
In shor t, effective early intervention programs may be a significant oppor tunity to prevent a great deal of suffering for children and their families.
