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outdancing

outdancing is the present participle and gerund of outdance.

Meaning of outdance

Verb

outdance (third-person singular simple present outdances, present participle outdancing, simple past and past participle outdanced)

  1. To dance better than; to outdo in dancing.
    • […] about some young Messapian shepherds who claimed to be able to outdance the local nymphs.2009, R. G. A. Buxton, Forms of astonishment: Greek myths of metamorphosis

Questions about outdancing

What is outdancing the present participle and gerund of?
Outdancing is the present participle and gerund of outdance.

Words near outdancing in the dictionary

  1. outdacious
  2. outdaciousness
  3. outdance
  4. outdanced
  5. outdances
  6. outdancing
  7. outdare
  8. outdared
  9. outdares
  10. outdaring
  11. outdash

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outdancing (page history and authors); outdance (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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