## Meanings
1. To feel pain, distress, or hardship.
2. To be affected by an illness, injury, or problem.
3. To become worse in quality.
4. To be regularly affected by an illness or weakness (suffer from).

## Examples
- Many artists suffer before becoming famous.
- They suffered only minor injuries in the accident.
- His grades suffered as the holidays approached.
- She suffers from terrible headaches.

## Synonyms
- ache
- agonize
- anguish
- hurt
- pain
- passion
- thole
- throe
- wark
- wring

## Antonyms
- luxuriate
- relax

## Derived Forms
- insufferable
- sufferable
- sufferance
- sufferer
- suffering
- unsufferable

## Related Forms
- agonized
- gnash
- groan
- moan
- scream
- scrunch
- shriek
- spasm
- squirm
- sublate
- sublation
- wince

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *bʰer-
- Root: suffren
- Root: sofrir
- Root: sufferō

## Etymology
From Middle English suffren, from Anglo-Norman suffrir, from Latin sufferre (“to offer, hold up, bear, suffer”), from sub- (“up, under”) + ferō (“to carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”). Displaced native Old English þrōwian.

## AI Etymology
Suffer is from Middle English suffren, from Anglo-Norman suffrir, from Latin sufferre (“to offer, hold up, bear, suffer”), from sub- (“up, under”) + ferō (“to carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”). Displaced native Old English þrōwian. In present-day use, it can mean to feel pain, distress, or hardship, or to be affected by an illness, injury, or problem.

## Topics
- Health & Medicine

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