- present tense form of suffer (3rd person singular).
suffers
Example Sentences
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Looming over the crackdown is the failing health of 80-year-old Ortega, who suffers from lupus and kidney failure.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
The changes actually improved on the structure of the novel, which suffers from occasional protracted streams of thought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
For her part, Brady suffers with premenstrual dysphoric disorder and says she wishes medical professionals were more aware of how certain conditions impact autistic women.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
She dotes on her husband, who suffers from dementia and comes to terms with all the paraphernalia and recordings from her career that she hoarded for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
“She is the oldest person in our village. She suffers from a misguided fondness for her granddaughter, but otherwise her life has been blameless. I will pay you, of course.”
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
