Suffer vs Toil - What's the difference?
suffer | toil |
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. ยง 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.
labour, work
* 1908:
trouble, strife
A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
* Denham
* Dryden
To labour; work.
To struggle.
To work (something); often with out .
* Holland
* Milton
To weary through excessive labour.
* Shakespeare
In intransitive terms the difference between suffer and toil
is that suffer is to become worse while toil is to struggle.In transitive terms the difference between suffer and toil
is that suffer is to endure, undergo while toil is to weary through excessive labour.As a noun toil is
labour, work.suffer
English
Verb
(en verb)- If your more ponderous and settled project / May suffer alteration.
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- "Employ" includes to suffer or permit to work.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* insufferable * sufferer * suffering * suffer fools gladly * suffer by comparisonAnagrams
* ----toil
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- ...he set to work again and made the snow fly in all directions around him. After some further toil his efforts were rewarded, and a very shabby door-mat lay exposed to view.
- As a Numidian lion, when first caught, / Endures the toil that holds him.
- Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found.
Verb
(en verb)- places well toiled and husbanded
- [I] toiled out my uncouth passage.
- toiled with works of war
