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Definitions

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  • verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of suffer.

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Examples

  • I have used you very unhandsomely in not answering your repeated enquiries but if you could see me, and know what I have suffer'd, and am suffering as to health, you would say peace.

    Letter 360 2009

  • As much as I feel all the Ill-Use Trooper York hath suffer'd, I fear I am in no Condition to avenge any Wrong done to him.

    When lawyers shop... Ann Althouse 2009

  • Thus this good Gentlewoman suffer'd with great patience, her manifold

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • But, oh! my Lucasia, I cannot tell you what I suffer'd when I was alone; Rage and Madness seiz'd me, Revenge and Malice was all I thought upon; inspir'd by an evil Genius, I resolv'd his Death, and pleas'd myself in the Fancy of a barbarous Revenge, and delighted myself to think I saw his Blood pour out of his false Heart.

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • I suffer'd here, 'twould make your Ears glow, being often beat, and made to expose my self stark − naked, for the brutal Diversion of those who pick'd up such distressed Creatures.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Expression: For 'tis certain, that, unknown to my self, I lov'd her as well as any Hero in a Romance; and had suffer'd as great Anxieties for the

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Farce he had acted about Mrs. Lowland; nevertheless, I suffer'd great Distractions in my Mind; and when Length of Prattle had lull'd

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • He who has suffer'd you to impose on him knows you.

    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 2008

  • He was like Coriolanus, when he was deserted by nobles and people alike, and suffer'd by the voice of slaves to be Whoop'd out of Rome.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • This she affirms; and this, poor wretch, she suffer'd.

    Ion 2008

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