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outbashing

outbashing is the present participle and gerund of outbash.

Meaning of outbash

Verb

outbash (third-person singular simple present outbashes, present participle outbashing, simple past and past participle outbashed)

  1. To exceed or surpass in bashing (in various senses).
    • The Republican Party has no credible authority figure right now that they have to listen to. So it becomes just this competition for who can outbash China. And that just doesn't end well.2025 April 15, Ezra Klein, “Why Trump Could Lose His Trade War With China”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2025

Questions about outbashing

What is outbashing the present participle and gerund of?
Outbashing is the present participle and gerund of outbash.

Words near outbashing in the dictionary

  1. outbased
  2. outbases
  3. outbash
  4. outbashed
  5. outbashes
  6. outbashing
  7. outbasket
  8. outbaskets
  9. outbattle
  10. outbattled
  11. outbattles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outbashing (page history and authors); outbash (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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