outsuffer

English

Etymology

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 . . .

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outsuffer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)