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say it: SUHF-ur
suffer is a verb meaning "undergo or be subjected to". It is pronounced /ˈsʌfɚ/ — SUHF-ur. It carries 11 recorded senses.
undergo or be subjected to
“He suffered the penalty”
“Many saints suffered martyrdom”
undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
“She suffered a fracture in the accident”
“He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars”
“She got a bruise on her leg”
“He got his arm broken in the scuffle”
put up with something or somebody unpleasant
“I cannot bear his constant criticism”
“The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks”
“he learned to tolerate the heat”
“She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for suffer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.