<p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering.</li><li>to sustain injury, disadvantage, or loss: One's health suffers from overwork. The business suffers from lack of capital.</li><li>to undergo a penalty, as of death: The traitor was made to suffer on the gallows.</li><li>to endure pain, disability, death, etc., patiently or willingly.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to undergo, be subjected to, or endure (pain, distress, injury, loss, or anything unpleasant): to suffer the pangs of conscience.</li><li>to undergo or experience (any action, process, or condition): to suffer change.</li><li>to tolerate or allow: I do not suffer fools gladly.</li></ul>