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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

outglitter en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + glitter.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To surpass in glitter or splendour.
    • Mrs. Longman-Tompkinson, apprehensive of being outglittered in a single spangle, by the gilt gingerbread of the Broadway, was labouring like a recruiting-sergeant to increase her forces, with favours flying and beat of drum […] 1838, Catherine Grace Frances, The Woman of the World: A Novel, volume 1, page 235:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
outglitters Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outglittering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outglittered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outglittered Tense=Past lexicographic