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View definitions for sufferer

sufferer

noun as in casualty

Strong match

noun as in invalid

noun as in martyr

Strongest match

Strong match

noun as in patient

noun as in prey

noun as in victim

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Example Sentences

Depression is often a laborious uphill struggle for the sufferer and their loved ones.

The sufferer determines that death is the only way to cease the pain.

Chief Justice Rehnquist, who oversaw the Clinton impeachment, was, like Perry, a lower-back-pain sufferer.

But many migraines come on completely mysteriously, no matter how careful a sufferer has been to avoid triggers.

In the past, people largely attributed epidemics to God or nature or the individual sufferer.

It was he who deserved punishment—not the sufferer with his calamities imposed upon him by his erring sire.

They obeyed, and the third day after brought to us the sufferer, whose life they had despaired of, in a half-dying condition.

Portugal is this time the scene of the disaster, the sufferer being the Baquet Theatre in Oporto.

He was the friend of Laud, by whose influence he was promoted, and by whose fall he was a great sufferer.

When together the law presumes she acted from his coercion, he therefore must be the sufferer, while she escapes.

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On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sufferer, such as: dead, fatality, injured, loss, wounded, and prey.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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