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out-tops

out-tops is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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-tops

What is out-tops the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Out-tops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of out-top.

Words near out-tops in the dictionary

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

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