sufferer

English

Etymology

suffer +‎ -er

Noun

sufferer (plural sufferers)

1. One who suffers.
   • 1944 November and December, “Rapid Damage Repair”, in Railway Magazine, page 323:

     All the main-line railways, as well as London Transport, were affected by flying-bomb damage, but naturally the Southern Railway was the principal sufferer for geographical reasons, and the L.N.E.R. came next with the damage it sustained in the Stratford area.

2. One who is afflicted.

Derived terms

• asthma sufferer
• migraine sufferer

Translations

one who suffers

• Bulgarian: страда́лец (bg) m (stradálec)
• Dutch: lijder (nl) m
• French: malade (fr) m or f
• German: Leider (de) m
• Hebrew: סובל‎ m (sovel), סובלת‎ f (sovelet)
• Maori: hāura
• Portuguese: sofredor (pt) m
• Russian: страда́лец (ru) m (stradálec), страда́лица (ru) f (stradálica)
• Spanish: sufridor (es) m
• Welsh: dioddefwr (cy) m

one who is afflicted

• Dutch: lijder (nl) m
• Maori: hāura
• Portuguese: sofredor (pt) m

References

• “sufferer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.