suffer: 意味と定義

To feel pain or distress; sustain loss, injury, harm, or punishment.

To tolerate or endure evil, injury, pain, or death. See Synonyms at bear1.

To appear at a disadvantage: "He suffers by comparison with his greater contemporary” ( Albert C. Baugh).

To undergo or sustain (something painful, injurious, or unpleasant): "Ordinary men have always had to suffer the history their leaders were making” ( Herbert J. Muller).

To experience; undergo: suffer a change in staff.

To endure or bear; stand: would not suffer fools.

To permit; allow: "They were not suffered to aspire to so exalted a position as that of streetcar conductor” ( Edmund S. Morgan).