suffer
verb (used without object)
to undergo or feel pain or distress.
unsufferable
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a word derived from
suffer.
Example Sentences
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On the contrary, when those conspired against escape, they become harsher and more unsufferable than before, as, in the examples given, Florence, Athens, and Heraclea had cause to know.
From Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Ninian Hill Thomson
Hell heard the unsufferable noise, Hell saw Heaven ruining from Heaven, and would have fled Affrighted; but strict Fate had cast too deep Her dark foundations, and too fast had bound.
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
Among all their privations, what they felt the most unsufferable, was the want of salt, of which they had not been able to procure the smallest supply for above two hundred leagues.
"In England, we couple it with unsufferable heat and the yellow fever."
From Newton Forster by Frederick Marryat
The Defects and unsufferable Abuses which are heard in Recitatives, and not known to those who commit them, are innumerable.
From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by John Ernest Galliard
