suffer (v.) Old form(s): suffer'd
put up with, tolerate, do nothing about
1H4 V.i.139[Falstaff alone, of the word 'honour'] Detraction will not suffer it
2H6 III.i.32[Queen to King, of Gloucester] weeds are shallow-rooted; / Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden
2H6 III.ii.262[Salisbury to King, of a serpent approaching the sleeping King] It were but necessary you were waked, / Lest, being suffered in that harmful slumber, / The mortal worm might make the sleep eternal
3H6 IV.viii.8[George to all] A little fire is quickly trodden out; / Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench
KL I.ii.51[Gloucester reading Edgar's letter] the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways not as it hath power but as it is suffered
R2 II.i.164[York to King Richard] how long / Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong?
R2 II.i.269[Ross to Northumberland and Willoughby] unavoided is the danger now / For suffering so the causes of our wrack
TS II.i.31[Katherina to Baptista, of her treatment of Bianca] will you not suffer me? [i.e. let me have my own way]
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