Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who suffers; a person who endures or undergoes pain, either of body or of mind; one sustaining evil of any kind.
- noun One who permits or allows.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss
- noun One who permits or allows.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
suffers . - noun One who is
afflicted .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who suffers for the sake of principle
- noun a person suffering from an illness
Etymologies
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Examples
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[1] Annotated in another hand: 'A sufferer from a destructive
Letter 215 2009
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Dick would be summoned to the lab: an elderly person had stopped breathing in his sleep, or a newborn had died, presumably from SIDS; a long-term sufferer of disease had finally succumbed to disease, or some genetic abnormality had stolen another life.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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Dick would be summoned to the lab: an elderly person had stopped breathing in his sleep, or a newborn had died, presumably from SIDS; a long-term sufferer of disease had finally succumbed to disease, or some genetic abnormality had stolen another life.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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As a result, besides having to deal with the pain, the chronic pain sufferer also suffers from constantly being
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Just recently Sandra at Bookworld (otherwise a nice, thoughful litblog) opined that she had contracted "Bloom Syndrome," a "condition in which the sufferer is unable to read any work of literature unless it is deemed Significant by Harold Bloom and which often results in the reader losing the will to live/read, crushed under the weight of canonical imperatives."
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One adult, an asthma sufferer, is causing some concern.
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Dick would be summoned to the lab: an elderly person had stopped breathing in his sleep, or a newborn had died, presumably from SIDS; a long-term sufferer of disease had finally succumbed to disease, or some genetic abnormality had stolen another life.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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Maybe trying to understand the sufferer is trying to understand Don.
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Maybe trying to understand the sufferer is trying to understand Don.
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Another sufferer is "desahuiciado with lamparones y empeines," severe skin afflictions, but he, too, is cured after the holy soil is rubbed on him, as is another man who is suffering from "one hundred and ten sores."
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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