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outkilling

outkilling is the present participle and gerund of outkill.

Meaning of outkill

Verb

outkill (third-person singular simple present outkills, present participle outkilling, simple past and past participle outkilled)

  1. (stative, transitive) To kill more than.
    • Southerners do not outkill northerners in homicides carried out during robberies, they found, only in those sparked by quarrels.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 119

Questions about outkilling

What is outkilling the present participle and gerund of?
Outkilling is the present participle and gerund of outkill.

Words near outkilling in the dictionary

  1. outkicking one's coverage
  2. outkicks
  3. outkicks one's coverage
  4. outkill
  5. outkilled
  6. outkilling
  7. outkills
  8. outkiss
  9. outkissed
  10. outkisses
  11. outkissing

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