outsuffer

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ suffer.

Verb

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

1. To exceed in suffering.
   • 1999, Sarah Waters, Affinity, Virago Press (2012), page 15:

     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 . . .

References

• “outsuffer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.