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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

outrange en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + range.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To have a longer range than (another projectile or weapon).
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To extend beyond the scope of; to extrapolate.
    • Only the men of Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea who sat among the audience and whose vision outranged the scene of those victories could read the deeper meaning of the poet. 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 89:

Forms

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outranges Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outranged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outranged Tense=Past lexicographic
outranging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic