suffer
verb (used without object)
to undergo or feel pain or distress.
sufferer
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a word derived from
suffer.
Example Sentences
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Not every back pain sufferer needs to see a spine surgeon, or even a physician, right away.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2024
The daughters of an elderly dementia sufferer who was forced to move after her care home closed have told of their family's ordeal and said homes “shouldn’t be treated like businesses”.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2024
Writing in the journal Nature, the team describes how all blood cells can be removed from a leukemia sufferer in a targeted manner while a new blood system is built up at the same time.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
Another dyslexia sufferer was physicist Albert Einstein, whose name is synonymous with the word genius.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
Gradually the sufferer grows thoroughly disoriented and subject to increasingly dangerous hallucinations—including the decidedly cruel misconception that he is not freezing but burning up.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
