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to feel or experience pain, difficulty etc; to bear (something unpleasant)

be in pain

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Cases of word usage

1) to suffer the main strain, hardship, of an attack, criticism, anger etc (brunt)

2) to suffer a long period of (pain, hardship etc) (endure)

3) to suffer the loss of (something) as a punishment or result of an action (forfeit)

4) to suffer grief (because of a person, thing) (grieve)

5) Human Immunodeficiency Virus (the virus that is present in a person who may suffer from AIDS) (HIV)

6) a person who is put to death or caused to suffer greatly for the sake of a great cause, religious belief or principle (martyr)

7) to make a person carry, have, suffer etc too much (overburden)

8) to punish a person, make a person suffer a disadvantage, (because of a wrong act, failure and often unfairly) (penalize)

9) to cause (a person) to suffer for doing wrong (punish)

10) (to cause a person, animal) to suffer or die from hunger; to feel very hungry (starve)

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