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