Suffer vs Stomach - What's the difference?
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To undergo hardship.
To feel pain.
To have a disease or condition.
To become worse.
To endure, undergo.
* Shakespeare
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, title= (archaic) To allow.
* The U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 203:
* Section 31-36 of the Code of Montgomery County, Maryland:
*KJV, Matthew 19:14
*:But Jesus said, suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
(informal) The belly.
(obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
* 1613 , (William Shakespeare), , IV. ii. 34:
* John Locke
(obsolete) Appetite.
*, II.ii.1.2:
* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , I. ii. 50:
(figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , IV. iii. 36:
To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
(obsolete) To be angry.
(obsolete) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
* 1607 , , III. iv. 12:
* L'Estrange
* Milton
In transitive terms the difference between suffer and stomach
is that suffer is to endure, undergo while stomach is to tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.As verbs the difference between suffer and stomach
is that suffer is to undergo hardship while stomach is to tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.As a noun stomach is
an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.suffer
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Verb
(en verb)- If your more ponderous and settled project / May suffer alteration.
The rise of smart beta, passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}
- "Employ" includes to suffer or permit to work.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* insufferable * sufferer * suffering * suffer fools gladly * suffer by comparisonAnagrams
* ----stomach
English
(wikipedia stomach)Alternative forms
* stomackNoun
(en noun)- Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […].
- He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach , ever ranking / Himself with princes;
- This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach , the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.
- a good stomach for roast beef
- If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach , let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.
- You come not home because you have no stomach'. / You have no ' stomach , having broke your fast.
- I have no stomach for a fight today.
- That he which hath no stomach to this fight, / Let him depart:
Synonyms
* (belly) abdomen, belly, bouk, gut, guts, maw, tummyDerived terms
* sick to one's stomach * stomach lining * the way to a man's heart is through his stomachDescendants
* stummy, tummyVerb
(en verb)- I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.
- I can't stomach her cooking.
- (Hooker)
- O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.
- The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront.
- The Parliament sit in that body to be his counsellors and dictators, though he stomach it.