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outflourish

outflourish verb: to flourish more than.

Verb

outflourish (third-person singular simple present outflourishes, present participle outflourishing, simple past and past participle outflourished)

  1. (transitive) To flourish more than.
    • The body has outflourished the soul.1887, The Methodist Review, volume 24, page 291
    • "Is it a world, a whole earth," he went on, "where the weeds mostly outflourish the flowers, […]1916, William Dean Howells, The Daughter of the Storage, and Other Things in Prose and Verse

Forms of outflourish

third-person singular presentoutflourishes
present participleoutflourishing
past participleoutflourished
pastoutflourished

Origin of outflourish

From out- + flourish.

Questions about outflourish

What does outflourish mean?
Outflourish means to flourish more than.
What part of speech is outflourish?
Outflourish is a verb.
What is the past tense of outflourish?
The past tense of outflourish is outflourished.

Words near outflourish in the dictionary

  1. outflings
  2. outfloat
  3. outfloated
  4. outfloating
  5. outfloats
  6. outflourish
  7. outflourished
  8. outflourishes
  9. outflourishing
  10. outflow
  11. outflow boundaries

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