suffer from sth
phr. v..phr. v.. to experience physical or mental pain because of a specific illness or problem.
phr. v.. to be affected by a specific disease, medical condition, or persistent negative state; typically used with chronic or long-term issues.
Many people suffer from hay fever in the spring.
He has suffered from back pain ever since he started working at a desk all day.
The local economy continues to suffer from a lack of investment and the decline of the manufacturing sector.
- Particles
- from
- Separability
- inseparable
- Pattern
- suffer + from + object
the object is usually a disease, a condition, or a systemic problem.
contrast with 'suffer' used alone (to experience pain in general); 'suffer from' requires a specific cause or diagnosis as the object.
She is suffering of a cold.She is suffering from a cold.the verb 'suffer' always collocates with the preposition 'from' when identifying the cause of the distress.