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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sufferer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
individual
▪ Continued avoidance of other substances or behaviours that may have a comparable, destructive, mood-altering effect on the individual sufferer.
▪ They live out their lonely existence entirely within the individual sufferer.
▪ The progressive decline in the course of addictive disease follows similar patterns in differing individual sufferers.
other
▪ But at least they had been brought into contact with other sufferers.
▪ John Head says it is vital the money is found to help other cancer sufferers.
▪ I would suggest that Bernard Dixon, and any other hypochondria sufferers, try the prescription.
▪ If that's the case, there's hope for other cancer sufferers.
■ NOUN
aids
▪ As Joe is dying, two friends care for him showing the need for compassion to AIDS sufferers.
▪ Clergy who revile homosexuality from the pulpit often turn around and take up collections and provide care for AIDS sufferers.
▪ In the case of AIDS sufferers, it develops rapidly and is more lethal.
▪ She knew why so many AIDS sufferers hid, how they faced losing jobs, insurance, homes.
▪ She even invites AIDS sufferers to come and talk to them.
arthritis
▪ Good for arthritis sufferers and they say it even stops snoring.
▪ He is looking forward to the new challenge of visiting arthritis sufferers in their own homes.
▪ Cider vinegar is also thought to be beneficial to arthritis sufferers.
asthma
▪ One child in ten is affected and, in 1990, there were 98 deaths among five-to-24-year-old asthma sufferers.
▪ Of course, large hurdles remain before asthma sufferers can breathe easier.
▪ But frequently the asthma sufferer learned to hold back both feelings because neither are acceptable to the family.
▪ Environmental groups say the current air standards are inadequate to protect the health of asthma sufferers and others with lung diseases.
▪ The study offers hope to allergy and asthma sufferers, Bloom said.
cancer
▪ The idea was to talk to survivors of life's hardships, from concentration camp victims to cancer sufferers.
▪ Karen Hurst helped a 10-year-old a cancer sufferer back to health by donating life-giving marrow last year.
▪ If successful it will mean gentler treatments for cancer sufferers as many drugs currently in use have toxic side effects.
▪ Do I really not want to be well? the cancer sufferer asks herself.
▪ John Head, from Huntley in the Forest of Dean, is a cancer sufferer and recognises the need for urgent help.
▪ John Head says it is vital the money is found to help other cancer sufferers.
▪ If that's the case, there's hope for other cancer sufferers.
dementia
▪ Information about the type and frequency of social or medical services received by the dementia sufferer was to be sought.
▪ From a medical practitioner familiar with the dementia sufferer.
▪ Table 4.1 shows where the dementia sufferers were living six months and 12 months after referral to the psychogeriatric service.
▪ Table 5.2 shows the relationship of the principal carer to the dementia sufferer.
▪ Working only with dementia sufferers in their own homes requires special skills, but also is taxing on patience and anxiety provoking.
▪ Each source contributed to the attempt to understand what dementia sufferers needed in order to help them stay at home.
▪ There will, in particular, continue to be a large number of dementia sufferers in the geriatric services.
■ VERB
help
▪ John Head says it is vital the money is found to help other cancer sufferers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Lupus is a disease of the immune system and nine out of ten sufferers are women.
▪ Many sufferers from depression struggle on for years before seeking help.
▪ Studies indicate that the treatment has helped headache sufferers.
▪ Summer can be a nightmare for hay fever sufferers.
▪ The health centre runs a support group for Parkinson's disease sufferers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ According to the World Bank, there are up to 700,000 sufferers.
▪ It also follows that any sufferer primarily addicted to one of these other drugs will tend to be cross-addicted to alcohol.
▪ It may - or may not - be appropriate to recommend the sufferer to refer these issues for group assessment.
▪ Meanwhile, I have just one tip for fellow sufferers.
▪ Previously, families could lose out on compensation of up to £30,000 if a sufferer died before the case was settled.
▪ Table 6.1 makes no distinction between different types of dementia sufferer.
▪ The paper could prove enormously important to the future of the 200 million malaria sufferers around the world.
▪ There are, of course, male sufferers of hysteria, she points out.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sufferer

Sufferer \Suf"fer*er\, n.

  1. One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea.

  2. One who permits or allows.

Wiktionary
sufferer

n. 1 One who suffers. 2 One who is afflicted.

WordNet
sufferer
  1. n. a person suffering from an illness [syn: sick person, diseased person]

  2. one who suffers for the sake of principle [syn: martyr]

Usage examples of "sufferer".

I was a great sufferer from nervous indigestion and acidity of the stomach.

At the above stated period I had also been a sufferer from diarrhea, in its most aggravating form, for three and a half years, and I was completely and radically cured of that, also.

I had also been a sufferer from diarrhea, in its most aggravating form, for three and a half years, and I was completely and radically cured of that, also.

And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.

The misery they inflicted was not the motive of their schemes, but an unpleasant incident, and usually the sufferers were men of other races and religions, for whom sympathy had been dulled by long antagonism.

With the first look of apprehension and the first wheeze, she pounced with the ephedrine or the isoprenaline, summoned one of the professors, and had the sufferer nicely propped up in a chair by the time someone arrived, ready to be talked out of further wheezes, and if that were not possible, ready for whatever treatment was ordered.

It was from this cause, perhaps, that government was backward in exhibiting sympathy for the sufferers, and a disposition for punishing the offenders.

Maybe a sufferer from exophthalmic goitrc, which resuits in very protuberant eyes.

Anti-vitamin chemicals, known as folic acids antagonists, have been administered to leukemia sufferers and have prolonged their lives by as much as a year, stated Dr.

There is even a form of seizures called gelastic seizures that causes sufferers to laugh incessantly.

Lugg for the sufferer on the table and he saw to his astonishment that it was his grave-tending friend of the morning, the secretary to the bird-watching Fanny Genappe, Miss Pinkerton of the Pontisbright Park Estate.

She had seen enough sufferers of the pocking fever in her time with Hulde to be able to reproduce such an appearance.

They went out from amongst us amid hand-shakings and blessings, but we saw and heard no more of them, save that a sudden fierce rattle of kettledrums would rise up now and again, which was, as our guards told us, to drown any dying words which might fall from the sufferers and bear fruit in the breasts of those who heard them.

He solemnly affirmed that he had never performed the act of self-pollution but once in his life: and yet for years he had been a constant sufferer from nocturnal emissions until his manhood was nearly lost, evidently the result of the mental onanism which he had practiced without imagining the possibility of harm.

MILLIONS OF DOLLARS are annually spent upon the advice of physicians, in traveling expenses, and hotel bills, by sufferers from asthma, or phthisic, in seeking a change of climate that will be advantageous.