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• suf-
  suf-

  variant of sub- before f: suffer.
• suf.
  suf.

  abbreviation

  suffix.

suf-

¹ American  

1. variant of sub- before f: suffer.

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suf. ² American  

Or suff

abbreviation

1. suffix.

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suf. British  

abbreviation

1. suffix

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Example Sentences

Lu suffered an unimportant loss when several junks carrying troops were sunk on Lake Taihu; most of the soldiers suf- fered nothing more than a ducking.

From Time Magazine Archive

But not every man is prepared to fall in with this programme of inflicting physical suf- fering for the relief of physical suffering.                                   

From The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage by Wright, Almroth

And this shal suf- fyce for Numeration on the fyngers.

From The Earliest Arithmetics in English by Steele, Robert

By this time he had become suf- ficiently acquainted with the peculiar odor, to know he was imposed upon.

From Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North Showing that slavery's shadows fall even there by Wilson, Harriet E.

NOTE.—The euphonic variations suc-, suf-, sug-, sum-, sup-, result from assimilating the b of sub- to the initial letter of the root.

From New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words by Swinton, William