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out-topping

out-topping is the present participle and gerund of out-top.

Meaning of out-top

Verb

out-top (third-person singular simple present out-tops, present participle out-topping, simple past and past participle out-topped)

  1. (transitive) To have a top higher than another; to exceed.
    • Grey-coloured woods covered a large part of the surface. This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks of yellow sand-break in the lower lands, and by many tall trees of the pine family, out-topping the others--some singly, some in clumps....1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “How My Shore Adventure Began”, in Treasure Islandᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ

Questions about out-topping

What is out-topping the present participle and gerund of?
Out-topping is the present participle and gerund of out-top.

Words near out-topping in the dictionary

  1. out-thrown
  2. out-throws
  3. out-toeing
  4. out-top
  5. out-topped
  6. out-topping
  7. out-tops
  8. out-topt
  9. out-tray
  10. out-trays
  11. out-turn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: out-topping (page history and authors); out-top (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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