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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)

  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

Questions about outsuffering

What is outsuffering the present participle and gerund of?
Outsuffering is the present participle and gerund of outsuffer.

Words near outsuffering in the dictionary

  1. outsucken
  2. outsucking
  3. outsucks
  4. outsuffer
  5. outsuffered
  6. outsuffering
  7. outsuffers
  8. outsulk
  9. outsulked
  10. outsulking
  11. outsulks

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