outsuffering
outsuffering is the present participle and gerund of outsuffer.
Meaning of outsuffer
Verb
outsuffer (third-person singular simple present outsuffers, present participle outsuffering, simple past and past participle 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
Questions about outsuffering
- What is outsuffering the present participle and gerund of?
- Outsuffering is the present participle and gerund of outsuffer.
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