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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

outsuffer en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + suffer.

Meanings

  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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
outsuffers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outsuffering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outsuffered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outsuffered Tense=Past lexicographic