sufferer

From suffer +‎ -er.

sufferer (plural sufferers)

1. One who suffers.
   • 1944 November and December, “Rapid Damage Repair”, in Railway Magazine, page 323:

     All the main-line railways, as well as London Transport, were affected by flying-bomb damage, but naturally the Southern Railway was the principal sufferer for geographical reasons, and the L.N.E.R. came next with the damage it sustained in the Stratford area.

2. One who is afflicted.

• “sufferer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.