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- Suffer vs. suffer from - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
“Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for such is the kingdom of heaven” Matthew 19:1 So “suffer” by itself can also mean allow The Oxford Dictionary on-line has: archaic Tolerate ‘France will no longer suffer the existing government’ But I’m not sure about it being ‘archaic’ as it also has the living example in the phrase: ‘he was a
- What is the difference between suffer for and suffer from?
"Suffer for" introduces a reason for punishment or suffering that is typically caused by other human beings, and which people either choose to accept because of what they believe in, or are forced to endure because of their past actions (this is the sense in "suffer for my sins")
- conjunctions - Suffered from vs suffered - English Language Usage . . .
Suffer from, on the other hand, is generally used when referring to the continuing consequences of a negative event or experience: For the last few years of her life she suffered from a heart attack that occurred on her 80th birthday The company suffered from the setback until things picked up 5 years ago
- meaning - It suffered me a lot or it made me suffer a lot? - English . . .
I understand that the second sentence (it made me suffer a lot) is correct, but could anyone please explain why? I couldn't find an explanation on the internet Many thanks
- What do I use in this instance? Suffering or suffer? [duplicate]
I enjoy watching people suffering I enjoy watching people suffer I feel more comfortable using the second one, but I also think that the first one is right so which one should I use?
- Suffer from use for non human contexts - English Language Usage . . .
People often connect suffer with human privation, in part perhaps because of its longtime pairing with pain in the legal phrase "pain and suffering " The first meaning that Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003) reports for suffer as a transitive verb is to submit to or be forced to endure {suffer martyrdom} and the second and third definitions it gives for suffer as an
- Phrase with similar meaning to dont suffer fools gladly lightly
I am looking for a phrase that is similar to "he doesn't suffer fools gladly" it is something like "he'd sooner walk through you, than around" likely UK Irish in origin I read it in an Irish paper a few years ago to describe someone who was impatient w people and didn't suffer fools lightly I cannot remember the exact phrase though
- Suffering succotash - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
According to this website: In the mid-1800s, during the Victorian era, there was a rejection of all profanity and so the common people developed a wide variety of malapropisms to avoid swearing o
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