Difference between Suffer and Hurt

What is the difference between Suffer and Hurt?

Suffer as a verb is to undergo hardship. while Hurt as a verb is to be painful.

Suffer

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To undergo hardship. To feel pain. To have a disease or condition. To become worse. To endure, undergo. To allow.

Example sentence: Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Hurt

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Wounded, physically injured.Pained.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A wound or pain.A roundel azure (blue circular spot).

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be painful.To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

Example sentence: There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

We hope you now know whether to use Suffer or Hurt in your sentence.

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