I suffer from no delusion that the justice system treats black and white equally.
“One-third of South Asians and more than half of all Sub-Saharan Africans suffer from malnutrition or undernutrition,” he writes.
The birds are debeaked, suffer ulcers, and terrible feet conditions.
Take responsibility for an endless stream of people, even as our own suffer, and struggle to get policy relief from Washington.
He did suffer from ‘Black Dog’ [depression] as he called it and having something to concentrate on was therapeutic for him.
But here, run away with my pen, I suffer my mother to be angry with me on her own account.
In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die unattended.
If we permit our economy to drift and decline, the vulnerable will suffer most.
And yet if I suffer it can only be with what I may call a curative suffering.
He must suffer more, must lose more, must pay more with happiness for his folly.
early 13c., "to be made to undergo, endure" (pain, death, punishment, judgment, grief), from Anglo-French suffrir, Old French sufrir, from Vulgar Latin *sufferire, variant of Latin sufferre "to bear, undergo, endure, carry or put under," from sub "up, under" (see sub-) + ferre "to carry" (see infer).
Replaced Old English þolian, þrowian. Meaning "to meekly submit to hardship" is from late 13c. That of "to undergo" (distress, suffering, etc.) is mid-14c. Meaning "to tolerate, allow" something to occur or continue is recorded from mid-13c. Related: Suffered; suffering.
