- present tense form of suffer (3rd person singular).
suffers
Example Sentences
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He suffers from the two facts that he achieved unique fame for the surgery named for him and he didn’t strike out hitters, he finessed them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
The removal of Jose Gabriel Espinoza comes as Bolivia suffers through its worst economic turbulence in four decades, which the center-right Paz, elected last year, is under pressure to fix.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
But this government-run primary school for girls in Faridabad, a district on the outskirts of the Indian capital Delhi, suffers from a host of problems.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
He suffers horrible burns, but she dashes away unscathed.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
Porgyand Bess suffers from much the same problem as Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice or Wagner’s Parsifal, both of which arouse discussion of perceived anti-Semitism because they are both still performed today.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
