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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

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

He cared not for the name / it was suf- ficiēt to hym to haue the dede / & so / the lesse he cared for glorye / the more alwayes he opteyned.

From The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke by Cox, Leonard, ca. 1495-

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

It suf- fered by juxta-position to the great church I had seen a few days before; yet it has some noble features.

From A Little Tour in France by James, Henry