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Answer for the clue "Suffer from a cold, maybe ", 7 letters:
sniffle

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ She'd sniffle and nestle closer and even with the peculiar haircut I'd know she wasn't any boy. II. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A few Fridays ago I had a bit of a sniffle on Friday morning. ▪ Finally, he sat, silent and quivering, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act, or the sound of sniffling; the condition of having a runny or wet nose, as from a cold or allergies. vb. (context intransitive English) To make a whimpering or sniffing sound when breathing because of a runny nose.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. cry or whine with snuffling; "Stop snivelling--you got yourself into this mess!" [syn: snivel , blubber , blub , snuffle ] inhale audibly through the nose; "the sick student was sniffling in the back row" [syn: sniff ]

Usage examples of sniffle.

Waiting every day from the ninth hour onward to see if her husband would come home for dinner, postponing the meal a few minutes only at a time, she drove her appallingly expensive cook mad, and all too often ended in sniffling her way through a solitary repast designed to revive the vanished appetite of a glutton emerging from a fasting cure.

He sniffled in solidarity with Elizu Roote as they passed another cluster of electrocuted corpses.

Even Jess-F, whom Richard had pegged as the toughest zenvol he had yet met, broke out the metallised glass tumblers from a dispenser by the fountain, while Gewell and the sniffling Zootie sat at their ease at table.

The plate of meat was brought by Mary Jones with Gower beside her, and a sniffle of her happiness audible.

Tails whirring, sniffling with puppyish pleasure, the dogs now gamboled about the black-trousered legs.

Jedi said with a wide grin and a sniffle - and he always seemed to be sniffling, and his hair always looked as if he had just walked in from a Tatooine sandstorm.

I smiled nervously again and released her hands, and she watched me again before turning away slightly and sniffling a little.

Beside Jeska, Nurse was sniffling, since this ceremony marked the end of her employment.

This was where the sniffling and moaning came from, and it smelled as if someone had been sick very thoroughly there, and for a long time.

For a while she held me, rocking to and fro, not letting go of me for a long time until she fell back listlessly, sniffling, and put a kleenex to her eyes and nose.

I stroked her back softly and held her, one hand cradling the back of her neck and pressing her tear-wet face into me, and she cried for a little while and then she began to relax, sniffling noisily at first.

This time the sniffle worked its way through the cushions of her bosom and exploded tinily at her nose.

They were tossed into the street, so bruised they could hardly walk and still struggling not to sniffle when they got back to the tents.

The bonsai had begun crying, its leaves trembling helplessly, its voice reduced to a sniffling squeak.

Terrible heat and a pervasive moldy smell that kept us all sniffling in spite of the antiallergenic drugs that our modified endocrine systems fed us.