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outfish

outfish verb: to catch bigger (or more) fish than.

Verb

outfish (third-person singular simple present outfishes, present participle outfishing, simple past and past participle outfished)

  1. (transitive) To catch bigger (or more) fish than.
    • My friend Jud has outfished me in all but one or two of the hundred times we’ve gone to the ocean and bay beaches and kettle ponds on Cape Cod. By both study and exercise, he knows the culture of striped bass better than I know my own nose.2009 June 28, Salvatore Scibona, “Think Like a Fish”, in New York Times

Forms of outfish

third-person singular presentoutfishes
present participleoutfishing
past participleoutfished
pastoutfished

Origin of outfish

From out- + fish.

Questions about outfish

What does outfish mean?
Outfish means to catch bigger (or more) fish than.
What part of speech is outfish?
Outfish is a verb.
What is the past tense of outfish?
The past tense of outfish is outfished.

Words near outfish in the dictionary

  1. outfinishing
  2. outfire
  3. outfired
  4. outfires
  5. outfiring
  6. outfish
  7. outfished
  8. outfishes
  9. outfishing
  10. outfit
  11. outfit doctor

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