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outlance

outlance verb: to lance outward.

Verb

outlance (third-person singular simple present outlances, present participle outlancing, simple past and past participle outlanced)

  1. (intransitive) To lance outward.
    • Before Dane had his glasses in focus, the outlancing strike of light was cut off, knife sharp.2017, Kenneth F. Gantz, Not in Solitude (Revised Edition)
  2. (transitive) To surpass in fighting or jousting with a lance.
    • I want some prince to challenge a knight who's a cad / And outlance the lad / To show me he's my hero.1965, Barbara Fried, Sleeping Beauty: Or the Famous Rose Taboo, Musical, page 31

Forms of outlance

third-person singular presentoutlances
present participleoutlancing
past participleoutlanced
pastoutlanced

Origin of outlance

From out- + lance.

Questions about outlance

What does outlance mean?
Outlance means to lance outward.
What part of speech is outlance?
Outlance is a verb.
What is the past tense of outlance?
The past tense of outlance is outlanced.

Words near outlance in the dictionary

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

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