Outdone
[,əut'dʌn]
Definition
(p. p.) of Outdo
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Examples
- 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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