[Vocabulary] SUFFER VS ENDURE

[hitinvo]

Could anyone explain the difference between SUFFER & ENDURE?
Thanks,

 

[Rover_KE]

Not a lot.

It depends on the context.

Rover

 

[hitinvo]

Not a lot.

It depends on the context.

Rover

would you please give me a specific example?

 

[Atchan]

would you please give me a specific example? OK

Endure: to suffer something difficult, unpleasant or painfull.
1. We had to endure a nine-hour delay at the airport.
2. She's already had to endure three painful operations on her leg.

Suffer: to experience physical or mental pain.
1. I think he suffered quite a lot when his wife left him.
2. She suffers terribly in the winter when it's cold and her joints get stiff.
3. She's been suffering from (= been ill with) cancer for two years.
4. Johnny suffers from (= is often ill with) asthma.
5. If you're not happy with it, you should complain. Don't just suffer in silence (= without saying anything).

 

[emsr2d2]

We had to endure a nine-hour delay at the airport

BUT

The flight suffered a nine hour delay.

 

[SoothingDave]

Not a teacher.

I think that "endure" carries with it the fact that you overcame whatever it was you were suffering from.

One may endure a three hour wait on an airport runway.

One may suffer from cancer.

If one endure, they rise above the situation, they win in the end.