Dictionary / Vocabulary / 患う
わずらう
to be ill; to suffer from
common word
日本では心臓病を患う人が多いようですが、リビアでも心筋梗塞になる人が最近とても増えています。
Many people suffer from heart disease in Japan, but in Libya those having heart attacks have also increased a lot recently.
最近、肺結核を患う人はほとんどいない。
These days few people suffer from tuberculosis.
父は風邪を患っている。
My father is suffering from a cold.