outcaper en · VERB
Etymology
From out- + caper.
Meanings
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(transitive) To surpass in capering.
The little fool Tries to outcaper his own shadow.
1884, Katharine Harris Bradley, Edith Emma Cooper, Callirhöe and Fair Rosamund:As he took his prolonged siesta, she would frisk about him, biting first one ear and then the other, till at last he would rise in magnificent menace and go chasing after her, his middle-aged dignity melting from him in the fun of the frolic, till his antics outcapered her own.
1919, Katharine Lee Bates, Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| outcapered | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| outcapered | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| outcapers | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| outcapering | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |