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outgallop en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English gallop English outgallop From out- + gallop.

Meanings

  1. (especially, of horses or riders, transitive) To run faster than; to outdistance.
    • 1869, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude, ch. 14, He had lately procured himself a large, fine, mettlesome, Donets horse, dun-colored, with light mane and tail, and when he rode it no one could outgallop him.

Forms

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outgalloped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outgalloped Tense=Past lexicographic
outgallops Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outgalloping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic