- present tense form of suffer (3rd person singular).
suffers
Example Sentences
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“Our country suffers because of it, and we’re ending it a different way,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Mentally he is quite fragile, and when he becomes physically ill from a bacterial infection, he suffers a mental breakdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
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
Nadezhdin suffers from high blood pressure and diabetes, and briefly fell when he appeared in court in his hometown of Dolgoprudny just to the north of Moscow.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
But Singer says that a cow is not different at all in this one very important way: It feels pain and suffers just as we do.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
