Undergo or be subjected to:
— He suffered the penalty.
— Many saints suffered martyrdom.

synonym: endure.

Roget 972: punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste [Slang].    visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in pickle for; give it one.    strike etc. 276; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge^†, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund^†, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate^†, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.    tar and feather; pelt, stone, lapidate^†; masthead, keelhaul.    execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale^†, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas chamber.    torture; put on, put to the rack; picket.    banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize; rusticate; drum out; dismiss, disbar, disbench^†; strike off the roll, unfrock; post.    suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment; be flogged.    be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty; be hanged &c.; come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing [Coll.], twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served; be electrocuted, fry [Coll.], ride the lightning [Coll.]; face the firing squad.    ... show more

Roget 151: happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off, comeabout^†, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance^†; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene^†; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off etc. (be past) 122.    meet with; experience, enjoy, encounter, undergo, suffer, pass through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to; fall to the lot of; be one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot; find; endure etc. (feel) 821.    ... show more

Dutch: krijgen, lijden

Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses):
— She suffered a fracture in the accident.

synonyms: get, have, sustain.

Roget 655: be ill etc. adj.; ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with, complain of, have; droop, flag, languish, halt; sicken, peak, pine; gasp.    keep one's bed; feign sickness etc. (falsehood) 544.    lay by, lay up; take a disease, catch a disease etc. n., catch an infection; break out.    ... show more

Dutch: kwakkelen, sukkelen, tobben

Experience (emotional) pain.

Dutch: afzien, lijden

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.

synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, support, tolerate ... show more.

Roget 826: be composed etc. adj.. laisser faire [Fr.], laisser aller [Fr.]; take things easily, take things as they come; take it easy, rub on, live and let live; take easily, take cooly^†, take in good part; aequam servare mentem [Lat.].    bear the brunt, bear well; go through, support, endure, brave, disregard.    tolerate, suffer, stand, bide; abide, aby^†; bear with, put up with, take up with, abide with; acquiesce; submit etc. (yield) 725; submit with a good grace; resign oneself to, reconcile oneself to; brook, digest, eat, swallow, pocket, stomach.    make light of, make the best of, make 'a virtue of necessity'" [Chaucer]; put a good face on, keep one's countenance; check etc. 751; check oneself.    compose, appease etc. (moderate); 174; propitiate; repress etc. (restrain) 751; render insensible etc. 823; overcome one's excitability, allay one's excitability, repress one's excitability etc. 825; master one's feelings.    make oneself easy; make one's mind easy; set one's mind at ease, set one's mind at rest.    calm down, cool down; gentle; thaw, grow cool.    be borne, be endured; go down.    ... show more

Roget 760: permit; give permission etc. n., give power; let, allow, admit; suffer, bear with, tolerate, recognize; concede etc. 762; accord, vouchsafe, favor, humor, gratify, indulge, stretch a point; wink at, connive at; shut one's eyes to.    grant, empower, charter, enfranchise, privilege, confer a privilege, license, authorize, warrant; sanction; intrust etc. (commission) 755.    give carte blanche [Fr.], give the reins to, give scope to etc. (freedom) 748; leave alone, leave it to one, leave the door open; open the door to, open the flood gates; give a loose to.    let off; absolve etc. (acquit) 970; release, exonerate, dispense with.    ask permission, beg permission, request permission, ask leave, beg leave, request leave.    ... show more

Roget 821: feel; receive an impression etc. n.; be impressed with etc. adj.; entertain feeling, harbor feeling, cherish feeling etc. n.. respond; catch the flame, catch the infection; enter the spirit of.    bear, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole [Scot.], aby^†; abide etc. (be composed) 826; experience etc. (meet with) 151; taste, prove; labor under, smart under; bear the brunt of, brave, stand.    swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake etc. 315; be agitated, be excited etc. 824; look blue, look black; wince; draw a deep breath.    impress etc. (excite the feelings) 824.    ... show more

Dutch: doormaken, doorstaan, dragen, dulden, gedogen, getroosten, harden, incasseren, kampen, velen, verdragen, verduren ... show more

Get worse.

Feel pain or be in pain.

synonym: hurt.

Feel physical pain.

synonyms: ache, hurt.

Roget 828: feel pain, suffer pain, experience pain, undergo pain, bear pain, endure pain etc. n., smart, ache etc. (physical pain) 378; suffer, bleed, ail; be the victim of.    labor under afflictions; bear the cross; quaff the bitter cup, have a bad time of it; fall on evil days etc. (adversity) 735; go hard with, come to grief, fall a sacrifice to, drain the cup of misery to the dregs, sup full of horrors" [Macbeth]. sit on thorns, be on pins and needles, wince, fret, chafe, worry oneself, be in a taking, fret and fume; take on, take to heart; cark^†.    grieve; mourn etc. (lament) 839; yearn, repine, pine, droop, languish, sink; give way; despair etc. 859; break one's heart; weigh upon the heart etc. (inflict pain) 830.    ... show more

Roget 378: feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain etc. n.; suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge, twitch, lancinate^†; writhe, wince, make a wry face; sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles.    give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; cruciate^†, excruciate^†; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog etc. (punish) 972; grate on the ear etc. (harsh sound) 410.    ... show more

Feel unwell or uncomfortable.

Be given to.

Undergo or suffer:
— Suffer a terrible fate.

synonym: meet.

Dutch: ondergaan

Be set at a disadvantage:
— This author really suffers in translation.

synonym: lose.