outsuffer

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verb

To exceed in suffering.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

verboutsuffer (third-person singular simple present outsuffers, present participle outsuffering, simple past and past participle outsuffered)

present singular third person outsuffers · participle present outsuffering · participle past outsuffered · past outsuffered

  1. To exceed in suffering.

    All in all, she said, she had spent twenty-one years in gaol; which was a longer sentence than many convicts serve. And yet, there were women walking down there, too, who would outsuffer her. She had seen them come; she dared to say she would not be there to see them leave . . .

    1999, Sarah Waters, Affinity, Virago Press (2012), page 15

Origin

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