Synonyms:
sick_person, diseased_person, sufferer
Meaning: a person suffering from an illness
Usage examples
"Have a heart," replied the sufferer.
"Whether a defect or a disease, madame, I am the sufferer from it."
I am still a sufferer; the old pains rather aggravated than relieved by this climate.
Could I feel an affection the most paternal for this poor sufferer, and not abominate her destroyer?
He had been busy with a fresh embodiment of his favourite subject, into which he had sketched the form of the student as the sufferer.
He may set forth in search of a fair lady who has been taken captive, or to obtain a magic herb or stone to relieve a sufferer, to cure diseases, and to prolong life.
"Is that mortification?" asked the sufferer, looking ruefully at the black, swollen hand and fore-arm, and wincing under the doctor's touch as he took up the artery and tied it.
The Doctor, however, like all enthusiasts, had struggled hard to make a thorough convert of his pupil, and finally so far gained his point as to induce the sufferer to submit to numerous experiments.
"'Tis true, madame," answered he, "that my father was a Girondin, but he was not among the number of those who voted for the king's death; he was an equal sufferer with yourself during the Reign of Terror, and had well-nigh lost his head on the same scaffold on which your father perished."