outsuffer

verb

outsuffer

verb

Etymology From out- + suffer.

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:

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