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outkill en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /aʊtˈkɪl/ (UK)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From out- + kill.

Meanings

  1. (stative, transitive) To kill more than.
    • Southerners do not outkill northerners in homicides carried out during robberies, they found, only in those sparked by quarrels. 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 119:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
outkills Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outkilling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outkilled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outkilled Tense=Past lexicographic