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sufferer

[ US /ˈsəfɝɝ/ ]
[ UK /sˈʌfəɹɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person suffering from an illness
  2. one who suffers for the sake of principle

How To Use sufferer In A Sentence

  • The illness means sufferers' pulmonary arteries have thicker and less elastic walls. The Sun
  • It was also envisaged that they would play an advocacy and educational role on behalf of dementia sufferers throughout their area.
  • A quarter of the MS sufferers had their condition effectively suppressed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many sufferers of the condition are unable to go about daily life. Times, Sunday Times
  • Also well known is hydrophobia, literally ‘fear of water ‘, as a name for rabies, which sometimes appears to cause such a sensation in sufferers because it makes the throat swell and so it becomes difficult for the victim to swallow.’
  • The actress is frequently locked into playing a stoic, good-natured sufferer with a look of passive resignation about her.
  • The idea was to talk to survivors of life's hardships, from concentration camp victims to cancer sufferers.
  • There is no cure for cystinosis, which takes its toll on sufferers' kidney function. The Sun
  • She said that while multiple sclerosis was not hereditary or genetic there was a greater chance of developing it if a parent was a sufferer.
  • Sufferers are also more prone to herpes and skin infections.
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