Collocations for suffer - verb
ADVERB
a lot,
badly,
enormously,
greatly,
grievously,
horribly,
immensely,
mightily,
severely,
terribly,
tremendously
This area suffered very badly in the storms.
This area suffered very badly in the storms.
needlessly
Thousands of children in the world today suffer needlessly.
Thousands of children in the world today suffer needlessly.
disproportionately
Poor families suffer disproportionately from asthma.
Poor families suffer disproportionately from asthma.
accordingly
unnecessarily
economically, financially
emotionally, mentally, physically
alone
I'm sorry that you have to suffer alone like this.
unnecessarily
economically, financially
emotionally, mentally, physically
alone
I'm sorry that you have to suffer alone like this.
VERB + suffer
be likely to,
tend to
Premature babies are more likely to suffer from breathing difficulties in childhood.
Premature babies are more likely to suffer from breathing difficulties in childhood.
continue to
deserve to
No child deserves to suffer for a parent's mistakes.
deserve to
No child deserves to suffer for a parent's mistakes.
PREPOSITION
for
I played tennis yesterday and I know I shall suffer for it today.
I played tennis yesterday and I know I shall suffer for it today.
from
She suffers from asthma.
She suffers from asthma.
under
people suffering under repressive regimes
people suffering under repressive regimes
with
He suffers terribly with migraines.
He suffers terribly with migraines.
Suffer is used with these nouns as the subject:
country, credibility, economy, morale, patient, quality, reputation, schooling, victim
country, credibility, economy, morale, patient, quality, reputation, schooling, victim
Suffer is used with these nouns as the object:
abuse, accident, agony, ailment, anguish, arthritis, assault, attack, beating, bereavement, blow, bombardment, bout, breakdown, bruise, burn, casualty, complication, concussion, consequence, convulsion, cost, cramp, crisis, cruelty, cut, damage, death, decline, decrease, defeat, delay, delusion, depression, deprivation, dip, disability, disadvantage, disappointment, disaster, discomfort, discrimination, disruption, distress, disturbance, downturn, drop, effect, electric shock, embarrassment, erosion, execution, exposure, failure, fall, famine, fate, feeling, fit, fool, fracture, graze, guilt, haemorrhage, hallucination, handicap, harassment, hardship, harm, heart attack, hit, horror, humiliation, ill-treatment, illness, imprisonment, inconvenience, infection, injury, injustice, insult, intimidation, isolation, lapse, loneliness, loss, malnutrition, miscarriage, misery, misfortune, mishap, mutation, neglect, neurosis, nightmare, oppression, ordeal, pain, pang, penalty, persecution, plague, prejudice, problem, puncture, punishment, reaction, rebuff, recession, recurrence, reduction, relapse, remorse, repercussion, repression, reprisal, retaliation, reversal, reverse, setback, shock, shortage, sickness, side effect, spasm, stigma, strain, stress, stroke, swing, symptom, taunt, thrashing, torment, torture, tragedy, trauma, treatment, twinge, violence, withdrawal, wound, wrath, wrong
abuse, accident, agony, ailment, anguish, arthritis, assault, attack, beating, bereavement, blow, bombardment, bout, breakdown, bruise, burn, casualty, complication, concussion, consequence, convulsion, cost, cramp, crisis, cruelty, cut, damage, death, decline, decrease, defeat, delay, delusion, depression, deprivation, dip, disability, disadvantage, disappointment, disaster, discomfort, discrimination, disruption, distress, disturbance, downturn, drop, effect, electric shock, embarrassment, erosion, execution, exposure, failure, fall, famine, fate, feeling, fit, fool, fracture, graze, guilt, haemorrhage, hallucination, handicap, harassment, hardship, harm, heart attack, hit, horror, humiliation, ill-treatment, illness, imprisonment, inconvenience, infection, injury, injustice, insult, intimidation, isolation, lapse, loneliness, loss, malnutrition, miscarriage, misery, misfortune, mishap, mutation, neglect, neurosis, nightmare, oppression, ordeal, pain, pang, penalty, persecution, plague, prejudice, problem, puncture, punishment, reaction, rebuff, recession, recurrence, reduction, relapse, remorse, repercussion, repression, reprisal, retaliation, reversal, reverse, setback, shock, shortage, sickness, side effect, spasm, stigma, strain, stress, stroke, swing, symptom, taunt, thrashing, torment, torture, tragedy, trauma, treatment, twinge, violence, withdrawal, wound, wrath, wrong