Accept
Accept verb - To put up with (something painful or difficult).
Usage example: he accepted all of life's vicissitudes without complaint
Suffer is a synonym for accept in take topic. In some cases you can use "Suffer" instead a verb "Accept", when it comes to topics like stand, tolerate, endure, put up with.
Suffer
Suffer verb - To come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it.
Usage example: willingly suffered hardships so that their children would have a better life
Accept is a synonym for suffer in take topic. You can use "Accept" instead a verb "Suffer", if it concerns topics such as tolerate, endure.
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
| life | accept life | suffer life |
| defeat | accept defeat | suffer defeat |
| fate | accept fate | suffer fate |
| death | accept death | suffer death |
| Other words: way, loss, punishment, consequences, deaths. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- And after Sasuke was actually able to accept his teammates as his friends Itachi did it again to him for apparently no other reason than wanting him to suffer.
Source: Being Tortured Makes You Evil - Don't accept her proposal because your popularity will suffer and you cannot contact her ever again.
Source: Videogame / Rulers Of Nations - If someone learns this and cannot accept it, they suffer a "rejection," in which they disconnect from the simulation and die.
Source: Podcast / Edict Zero Fis
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