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outbuilt

outbuilt is the simple past and past participle of outbuild.

Meaning of outbuild

Verb

outbuild (third-person singular simple present outbuilds, present participle outbuilding, simple past and past participle outbuilt)

  1. (transitive) To build more or better than.
    • “Each time they’d build, they’d try to outbuild all the rest of them,” said Dr. Randall F. Hipple, a retired obstetrician who helped establish a seven-block stretch of the street as a National Historic District.2007 July 20, Dave Caldwell, “Williamsport, Pa.: Home of True Small Ball”, in The New York Times

Questions about outbuilt

What is outbuilt the simple past and past participle of?
Outbuilt is the simple past and past participle of outbuild.

Words near outbuilt in the dictionary

  1. outbuds
  2. outbuild
  3. outbuilding
  4. outbuildings
  5. outbuilds
  6. outbuilt
  7. outbulge
  8. outbulged
  9. outbulges
  10. outbulging
  11. outbulk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outbuilt (page history and authors); outbuild (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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