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  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

Either here or hereafter, suf-         fering or Science must destroy all illusions         regarding life and mind, and regenerate material sense 296:9 and self.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker

The situation demands the bring- ing forward of the case against woman's suf- frage; and it must be the full and quite unex- purgated case.

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

I retain, however, a suf- ficiently clear impression of the little superannuated temple, with its four apses and its perceptible odor of antiquity, - the odor of the eleventh century.

From A Little Tour in France by James, Henry