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outherod

outherod is the obsolete form of out-Herod.

Meaning of out-Herod

Verb

out-Herod (third-person singular simple present out-Herods, present participle out-Heroding, simple past and past participle out-Heroded)

  1. To surpass in evil and cruelty.
    • I could haue ſuch a Fellow whipt for o're-doing Termagant: it out-Herod's Herod. Pray you auoid it.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Forms of outherod

third-person singular presentoutherods
present participleoutheroding
past participleoutheroded
pastoutheroded

Questions about outherod

What is outherod the obsolete form of?
Outherod is the obsolete form of out-Herod.

Words near outherod in the dictionary

  1. outheard
  2. outhearing
  3. outhears
  4. outheel
  5. outheld
  6. outherod
  7. outheroded
  8. outheroding
  9. outherods
  10. outhike
  11. outhiked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outherod (page history and authors); out-Herod (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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