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suffer in silence

suffer in silence verb: to tolerate a bad situation without complaining.

Verb

suffer in silence (third-person singular simple present suffers in silence, present participle suffering in silence, simple past and past participle suffered in silence)

  1. (idiomatic) To tolerate a bad situation without complaining.

Forms of suffer in silence

third-person singular presentsuffers in silence
present participlesuffering in silence
past participlesuffered in silence
pastsuffered in silence

Questions about suffer in silence

What does suffer in silence mean?
Suffer in silence means to tolerate a bad situation without complaining.
What part of speech is suffer in silence?
Suffer in silence is a verb.
What is the past tense of suffer in silence?
The past tense of suffer in silence is suffered in silence.

Words near suffer in silence in the dictionary

  1. suffects
  2. suffer
  3. suffer by comparison
  4. suffer fools gladly
  5. suffer from
  6. suffer in silence
  7. suffer'd
  8. sufferability
  9. sufferable
  10. sufferableness
  11. sufferably

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