outrival en · VERB
Etymology
From out- + rival.
Meanings
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(transitive) To outperform; to outdo.
I learned the first two tenses of the verb Être, and sketched my first cottage (whose walls, by-the-by, outrivalled in slope those of the leaning tower of Pisa) on the same day.
1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter VIII, in Jane Eyre:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| outrivals | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| outrivalled | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| outrivalled | Tense=Past | UK | lexicographic |
| outrivaled | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | US | lexicographic |
| outrivaled | Tense=Past | US | lexicographic |
| outrivalling | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| outrivaling | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | US | lexicographic |