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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

outrival en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + rival.

Meanings

  1. (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

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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