Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

outpick en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + pick.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To surpass in picking; to pick better or faster than.
    • […] the strongest people were not necessarily the fastest; men picked cotton, women picked cotton, children as young as ten picked cotton, and occasionally a woman came along who could outpick the men. 2013, Sebastian Junger, A Death in Belmont, page 21:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
outpicking Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outpicks Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outpicked Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outpicked Tense=Past lexicographic