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outcaper

outcaper verb: to surpass in capering.

Verb

outcaper (third-person singular simple present outcapers, present participle outcapering, simple past and past participle outcapered)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in capering.
    • The little fool
      Tries to outcaper his own shadow.1884, Katharine Harris Bradley, Edith Emma Cooper, Callirhöe and Fair Rosamund
    • As he took his prolonged siesta, she would frisk about him, biting first one ear and then the other, till at last he would rise in magnificent menace and go chasing after her, his middle-aged dignity melting from him in the fun of the frolic, till his antics outcapered her own.1919, Katharine Lee Bates, Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road

Forms of outcaper

third-person singular presentoutcapers
present participleoutcapering
past participleoutcapered
pastoutcapered

Origin of outcaper

From out- + caper.

Questions about outcaper

What does outcaper mean?
Outcaper means to surpass in capering.
What part of speech is outcaper?
Outcaper is a verb.
What is the past tense of outcaper?
The past tense of outcaper is outcapered.

Words near outcaper in the dictionary

  1. outcant
  2. outcanted
  3. outcanting
  4. outcants
  5. outcap
  6. outcaper
  7. outcapered
  8. outcapering
  9. outcapers
  10. outcapitalize
  11. outcapitalized

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