suffer

1. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.Examples: "Many artists suffer before becoming famous."Synonyms: bearintransitive

2. (intransitive) To feel pain.Examples: "At least he didn't suffer when he died in the car crash."Synonyms: agonize, anguish, tholeintransitive

3. (intransitive) To become worse.Examples: "If you keep partying like this, your school-work will suffer."; "Our correspondent found that timekeeping had suffered following the substitution of Class 5 4-6-0s on these workings."Synonyms: deteriorate, worsen, atrophy, break down, crack, decline, deteriorate, degenerateintransitive

4. (transitive) To endure, undergo.Examples: "I've been suffering your insults for years."; "We hope you never have to suffer the same pain."; "If you may pleaſe to thinke I loue the King, / And through him, what’s neereſt to him, which is / Your gracious ſelfe; embrace but my direction, / If your more ponderous and ſetled proiect may ſuffer alteration."Synonyms: bear, dree, thole, abear, abide, aby, accept, allowtransitive

5. (transitive, archaic, law) To allow.Examples: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to liue."; "But Iesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not to come vnto me: for of such is þe kingdome of heauen."; "These constitute the important inflectional changes that have taken place in Modern English. There are other grammatical changes, mostly syntactical in their nature, into which the limits of this work do not suffer us to enter."Synonyms: permitarchaictransitive