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outsparkle en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + sparkle.

Meanings

1. To exceed in sparkling.
   • I want you to know about Tully because he is the epitome of good health, good habits, and a great disposition with a twinkle in his eye that will outsparkle the most precious diamond. 2022, Bill Turiace, Restaurant Adventures:
   • Her eyes outsparkled the jewels she wore.
   • Her cheeks were as round and red as lore-apples, and she had dancing blue eyes that appeared for ever engaged in good-natured efforts to outsparkle each other. 2022, Marie Corelli, Thelma:
2. (poetic) To sparkle outwards.
   • a youthful wight Smiling beneath a coral diadem Outsparkling sudden like an upturn'd gem. 1818, John Keats, Endymion:
   • A flushing font, a sure upheaving well, Which now outsparkled from its fountain-head To freshen even her trampled virgin wreath , Making her move aside to weep for death. 1867, George Henry Calvert, Ellen: a Poem for the Times, page 19:
   • Or did they rise, thus rude, And curl their uncouth ring in that same age Which saw the fair-proportioned Parthenon In its first finish of Pentelic marble, Outsparkle from the hand of Phidias? 1838, John Kenyon, “Moonlight”, in Poems: For the Most Part Occasional:

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