Outdo
[aʊt'duː] or [,aʊt'du]
Definition
(verb.) get the better of; 'the goal was to best the competition'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass.
Edited by Josie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Excel, surpass, exceed, beat, outstrip, outvie, outgo, go beyond, be superior to.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Outstrip, transcend, eclipse,[See SURPASS_and_TRANSCEND]
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Definition
v.t. to surpass: excel.
Editor: Priscilla
Unserious Contents or Definition
v.t. To make an enemy.
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Examples
- They were scheming to outdo one another, to rob weaker contemporaries, to destroy rivals, so that they might for a brief interval swagger. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The world seems to have become settled in the belief, long ago, that it is not possible for human genius to outdo this creation of da Vinci's. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He was no mocking-bird of praise, to try because another extolled what he reverenced and passionately loved, to outdo him in laudation. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- If we do not outdo Ecclesford, we do nothing. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But this time I mean to outdo him in breadth of intention. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Who does not know how our great men are outdoing themselves, in declaiming against the _foreign_ slave-trade. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He snatched at a premature popularity by outdoing his father's patriotic and aggressive attitudes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In manufactures they outdid the world in variety and beauty of design and perfection of workmanship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Realists outdid the vulgar tendency to exaggerate the significance of class. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You will hardly bear to be long outdone by Jane. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Jim's, not to be outdone, would affix bows and rosettes everywhere. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Not wishing to be outdone in courtesy, he immediately sent me the countersign for his regiment for the night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The little citizen, not to be outdone, declared her to be a celestial witness. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The la tter laid much stress, as we have seen in the preceding chapter, on the med icinal properties of plants, but in this respect he was outdone by Dioscorides (as well as by Pliny). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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