suffer

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To feel pain or distress; sustain loss, injury, harm, or punishment.
2. v. To tolerate or endure evil, injury, pain, or death. See Synonyms at bear¹.
3. v. To appear at a disadvantage: "He suffers by comparison with his greater contemporary” ( Albert C. Baugh).
4. v. To undergo or sustain (something painful, injurious, or unpleasant): "Ordinary men have always had to suffer the history their leaders were making” ( Herbert J. Muller).
5. v. To experience; undergo: suffer a change in staff.
6. v. To endure or bear; stand: would not suffer fools.
7. v. To permit; allow: "They were not suffered to aspire to so exalted a position as that of streetcar conductor” ( Edmund S. Morgan).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To endure; support bravely or unflinchingly; sustain; bear up under.
2. To be affected by; undergo; be acted on or influenced by; sustain; pass through.
3. To feel or bear (what is painful, disagreeable, or distressing); submit to with distress or grief; undergo: as, to suffer acute bodily pain; to suffer grief of mind.
4. To refrain from hindering; allow; permit; tolerate.
5. To tolerate abstention from.
6. Synonyms To feel, bear, experience, go through.
7. Allow, Permit, Consent to, etc. See allow.
8. To have endurance; bear evils bravely.
9. To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; bear what is distressing or inconvenient.
10. To be injured; sustain loss or damage.
11. To undergo punishment; especially, to be put to death.
12. To allow; permit.
13. To wait; hold out.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive To undergo hardship.
2. v. intransitive To feel pain.
3. v. intransitive To have a disease or condition.
4. v. intransitive To become worse.
5. v. transitive To endure, undergo.
6. v. transitive, archaic To allow.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo.
2. v. To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.
3. v. To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience
4. v. To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.
5. v. To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient.
6. v. To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.
7. v. To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. be set at a disadvantage
2. v. undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
3. v. feel pain or be in pain
4. v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant
5. v. experience (emotional) pain
6. v. undergo or be subjected to
7. v. feel physical pain
8. v. be given to
9. v. undergo or suffer
10. v. get worse
11. v. feel unwell or uncomfortable