sufferer
3
3.7
- noun
- /ˈsʌfərər/
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mártir
- The sufferer's mouth is held open by an iron device, and his eyes are rolled back in agony and horror.
- fellow sufferers
Examples
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The group members learned how to realistically assess what part of the sufferer's illness was beyond control.
Academic text (1995) -
With The Greatest Sufferers, Smith issued a call for repentance.
Academic text (2006) -
"Critical" history is for the sufferer in need of liberation.
Academic text (1996) -
The sufferer has a monkey on his head whose hold only strengthens with each attempt to throw it off.
Academic text (1995) -
The writer tells us that these sufferers were "commended" for their faith, yet:
Blog text (7) -
And so he says, just as Hippocrates says, that the most severe disease is that in which the countenance or the face of the sufferer is most unlike itself.
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The interview came just shortly before another LIS sufferer, Tony Nicklinson, died from untreated pneumonia.
Blog text (1) -
The depression may be almost unnoticeable in the long-term sufferer or acute and painful in one who recently has been told, "I'm sorry, but we've done all we can."
Academic text (1995) -
To his mind, Menca infects honor, the sickly sufferer, with the disease of adultery, thereby introducing impure blood into the family lineage.
Academic text (2002) -
The charity event aimed to raise awareness for the needs of every sufferer enduring chronic pain.
Synonyms
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1.5
A person who suffers harm, injury, loss because of an accident, crime or trick
95
7.3
A person killed for their religious or political beliefs
86
9.8
A person who suffers a lot and does not complain
How Committed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sufferer is suffer + the ending -er ('one who'). Suffer comes from Latin sub- ('under') and ferre ('to bear'), like the English word 'bear' meaning 'to carry', so a sufferer is someone who 'bears under' hardship and can mean a person who endures pain or trouble for the sake of a principle or cause.