sufferance, n. 1. tolerance, toleration, forbearance; permission, authorization, tacit allowance, concession, connivance, laxity, laissez faire; favor, indulgence, grace; license, leave, liberty, freedom; scope, latitude, play, range, rope, free rein.
2. endurance, stoicism, long-suffering, patience, abidingness, submission; equanimity, composure, tranquillity, sang-froid, calmness, coolness, placidity, imper-turbation, command, self-control, self-possession, self-restraint; sobriety, gravity, staidness,
sufferer, n. tolerator, endurer, stoic; victim, martyr, shorn lamb; patient, case, invalid, cripple; convalescent; hypochondriac, valetudinarian,
suffering, n. 1. discomfort, distress, misery, Obs. pathos, anguish, Archaic, misease; torment, torture, agony, affliction; ache, hurt, pang, pain; twinge, nip, pinch, smart; soreness, throbbing, shooting, cramp, stitch; seizure, spasm, throe, paroxysm, convulsion.
2. grief, Archaic, teen, woe, sorrow, dolor, heavy heart, heartache; worry, fret, care, concern, solicitude, anxiety; ordeal, trial, tribulation, trouble; burden, load; blow, shock.
3. endurance, patience, sufferance, tolerance, toleration, forbearance, sustainment; stoicism, resignation, resignedness, acceptance; long-suffering, longanimity.
suffice, v. be enough, be adequate, be sufficient, pass muster; do, serve, satisfy, answer; please, gratify, appease, content, assuage, pacify, placate; fulfill, fill, sate, satiate; saturate, quench, slake; Inf. hit the spot or bull's-eye, do the trick, be on target,
sufficiency, n. 1. adequacy, adequateness, sufficientness; enough, no less, no more and no less; satisfaction, satisfactoriness, acceptability, tolerableness, contentment; completeness, thoroughness, extensiveness.
2. plenty, amplitude, abundance, copiousness, plenitude, plenteousness, profusion; repletion, surfeit, satiety, fill.
sufficient, adj. 1. enough, adequate, ample, abundant; plenteous, plentiful, Inf. plenty, Archaic, enow; suitable, commensurate, proportionate, equivalent, equal.
2. satisfactory, up to scratch, Inf. up to snuff, passable, tolerable; presentable, admissible, allowable; fairly good, Inf. not that bad, not too bad, pretty good,
suffix, n. 1. ending, postfix, Gram, termination; affix, addition, appendage, subjoinder, postscript, tag; appendix, codicil, adjunct, supplement, addendum, amendment, rider.
-v. 2. postfix, affix, tag on, tack on; add on, append, subjoin, supplement, amend,
suffocate, v. 1. asphyxiate, smother, stifle, burke; choke, strangle, strangulate, throttle, garrote, bowstring.
2. suppress, quell, put down, subdue, overcome; ex-tinquish, dampen, Inf. douse, snuff out.
suffocation, n. 1. asphyxiation, smothering, stifling, burking; choking, strangulation, throttling, (in India) thuggee, garroting.
2. suppression, quelling, subduing, overcoming; extinguishment, dampening, Inf. dousing, snuffing out.
suffrage, n. franchise, right to vote, ballot; determination, voice, say, choice, option,
suffuse, v. overspread, cover, mantle; bathe, color, dye, tint, tincture; imbue, imbrue, permeate, infiltrate, transfuse, diffuse, infuse, steep, soak, saturate,
sugar, n. Chem. sucrose, Chem. saccharose, Chem. glucose, Chem. dextrose, Chem. fructose, Chem. levulose, Chem. lactose, Chem. maltose; muscovado, turbinado sugar, raw sugar, brown sugar, confectioner's sugar, granulated sugar, refined sugar; Chem. saccharin, Trademark. Crystallose.
sugary, adj. 1. sweet, sweetened, honeyed, honey, confectionary; sugared, candied, nectared, nectareous, nectarean, saccharine; rich, delicious, cloying, sickening.