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Suffer vs Undercome - What's the difference?

suffer | undercome |

As verbs the difference between suffer and undercome

is that suffer is to undergo hardship while undercome is to come under; experience or suffer the effects of; be affected by.

suffer

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To undergo hardship.
  • To feel pain.
  • To have a disease or condition.
  • To become worse.
  • To endure, undergo.
  • * Shakespeare
  • If your more ponderous and settled project / May suffer alteration.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • (archaic) To allow.
  • * The U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. ยง 203:
  • "Employ" includes to suffer or permit to work.
  • * 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * insufferable * sufferer * suffering * suffer fools gladly * suffer by comparison

    Anagrams

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    undercome

    English

    Verb

  • To come under; experience or suffer the effects of; be affected by.
  • *1994 , Alloin, Mariotti, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Adaptive optics for astronomy: Volume 1993 :
  • [...] that is field dependent, and due to the the fact that the beam coming from the guide star and the beam coming from another angular direction cross slightly different parts of the atmosphere medium, therefore undercome slightly different phase perturbations.
  • *1992 , Ko?odko, Gotz-Kozierkiewicz, Skrzeszewska-Paczek, Hyperinflation and stabilization in postsocialist economies :
  • After the period of its relative stabilization in the first year of the program, the exchange rate undercame later consecutive devaluations attaining at the end of June 1990 [...]
  • To submit; submit to.
  • *1997 , Naval Studies Board, National Research Council, Twenty-First Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics :
  • A third order time domain approach based on the code SWAN has also been undercome [...]
  • To come through.
  • *2001 , Harold Bloom, Maya Angelou :
  • So I think we're all on journeys, according to how we're able to travel, overcome, undercome , and share what we have learned.