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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“Animate” includes a fascinating chapter on clinical lycanthropy, a psychiatric condition in which the sufferer believes that he or she is an animal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Not every back pain sufferer needs to see a spine surgeon, or even a physician, right away.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2024
But, as a former knee injury sufferer, I was particularly intrigued to see how he got on with the ball in hand.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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
She was being extra clever, she knew, changing the sex of the sufferer, just in case the healer had heard of the woman in the cave.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
