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outbidden

outbidden is the past participle of outbid.

Meaning of outbid

Verb

outbid (third-person singular simple present outbids, present participle outbidding, simple past outbid or outbidded, past participle outbid or outbidded or outbidden)

  1. (transitive) To bid more than (somebody else) in an auction.
    • Bengal outbidded those of Delhi; instead of searching for khalifahs for obtaining recognition, Sultan Sikandar Shah himself took the title .of Imam ul-Azam and Khalifat-ul-Muazzam.1985, Abdul Karim, Social History of the Muslims in Bengal: Down to A.D. 1538, page 65

Questions about outbidden

What is outbidden the past participle of?
Outbidden is the past participle of outbid.

Words near outbidden in the dictionary

  1. outbets
  2. outbetted
  3. outbetting
  4. outbid
  5. outbidded
  6. outbidden
  7. outbidder
  8. outbidders
  9. outbidding
  10. outbids
  11. outbike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outbidden (page history and authors); outbid (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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