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outsuffers

outsuffers is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 outsuffers

What is outsuffers the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Outsuffers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outsuffer.

Words near outsuffers in the dictionary

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

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