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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

outflourish en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + flourish.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To flourish more than.
    • The body has outflourished the soul. 1887, The Methodist Review, volume 24, page 291:
    • "Is it a world, a whole earth," he went on, "where the weeds mostly outflourish the flowers, […] 1916, William Dean Howells, The Daughter of the Storage, and Other Things in Prose and Verse:

Forms

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outflourished Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outflourished Tense=Past lexicographic
outflourishes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outflourishing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic