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outlain

outlain is the past participle of outlie.

Meaning of outlie

Verb (1)

outlie (third-person singular simple present outlies, present participle outlying, simple past and past participle outlied)

  1. (rare, transitive) To tell more or better lies than.

Verb (2)

outlie (third-person singular simple present outlies, present participle outlying, simple past outlay, past participle outlain)

  1. (rare, transitive) To lie outside, or at the extremes or periphery of.
  2. (intransitive, rare) To live in the open air.

Questions about outlain

What is outlain the past participle of?
Outlain is the past participle of outlie.

Words near outlain in the dictionary

  1. outlabour
  2. outlaboured
  3. outlabouring
  4. outlabours
  5. outlaid
  6. outlain
  7. outlance
  8. outlanced
  9. outlances
  10. outlancing
  11. outland

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outlain (page history and authors); outlie (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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