suffer

/ˈsʌfər/

意味: 苦しむ、被る

例文: Kai began to suffer from a cold.
　　  カイは風邪で苦しみ始めた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: suffer from(〜に苦しむ), suffer pain(痛みを感じる), suffer loss(損失を被る)

定義: 苦しむ、痛みや困難を経験すること。病気や不幸な状況で辛い思いをすることを指します。

sufferは約40,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Verb: undergo or be subjected to
Verb: undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
Verb: experience (emotional) pain
Verb: put up with something or somebody unpleasant
Verb: get worse
Verb: feel pain or be in pain
Verb: feel physical pain
Verb: feel unwell or uncomfortable
Verb: be given to
Verb: undergo or suffer
Verb: be set at a disadvantage

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb

Examples(例文)

Verb: He suffered the penalty
Verb: Many saints suffered martyrdom
Verb: She suffered a fracture in the accident
Verb: He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars
Verb: She got a bruise on her leg
Verb: He got his arm broken in the scuffle
Verb: Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers
Verb: I cannot bear his constant criticism
Verb: The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks
Verb: he learned to tolerate the heat
Verb: She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage
Verb: His grades suffered
Verb: Were you hurting after the accident?
Verb: She is suffering from the hot weather
Verb: She suffers from a tendency to talk too much
Verb: meet a violent death
Verb: suffer a terrible fate
Verb: This author really suffers in translation

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): abide, ache, bear, brook, digest, endure, get, have, hurt, lose, meet, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, sustain, tolerate

Antonyms(反意語): be well, enjoy

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): be, experience, feel, perceive, permit, tend, worsen

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abound, accept, account, account for, act, admit, allow, anger, answer, appear, apperceive, authorize, bake, balance, be well, beat, begin, belong, breathe, burn, buy, catch, chafe, clean, cohere, come, come in for, come in handy, compact, compare, confuse, connect, consist, contain, continue, cool off, cost, count, cover, cut, cut across, deck, depend, deprive, deserve, devolve, die, digest, disagree, distribute, diverge, divine, draw, dream, end, enjoy, fail, fall, feel, figure, find, fit, fly high, fume, furlough, gape, give, glow, go, gravitate, hail, hallucinate, hang, harbor, head, hear, hold, hoodoo, horripilate, hum, hurt, impend, incarnate, incline, inflame, iridesce, jumble, kill, know, legalize, lend, let go, lie, listen, litter, loiter, look, lubricate, make, make sense, measure, misperceive, mope, object, osculate, owe, pay, pick up, point, press, pride, privilege, promise, prove, put out, rage, range, rank, rate, recapture, recognize, regress, rejoice, relate, remain, repent, represent, rest, retard, run, run into, rut, sadden, see, see through, seem, seethe, sell, shine, sicken, slip, smell, smolder, sparkle, specify, spy, squat, stagnate, stand, stand by, stay, stick, stink, subtend, suck, suffer, suit, swim, swing, sympathize, take, take kindly to, take pride, taste, tend, test, total, touch, translate, transplant, trim, trust, tumble, turn down, underlie, want, wash, wind, witness, work

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): accept, agonize, ail, anguish, bear up, break down, catch, crack up, cramp, die, freeze, gag, grieve, have, kill, lose, pay, prick, sit out, stand for, starve, swelter, take a joke, take lying down, tolerate, twinge

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: abidance, ache, aching, bearable, endurance, hurt, hurting, sufferance, sufferer, suffering, tolerance, tolerant, toleration

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: medical, psychology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, emotional, online

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): er

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Finding Nemo, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: negative