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outlearned

outlearned is the simple past and past participle of outlearn.

Meaning of outlearn

Verb

outlearn (third-person singular simple present outlearns, present participle outlearning, simple past and past participle outlearned or outlearnt)

  1. (transitive) To surpass (someone) in learning.
    • By eleven years old, the young genius had outlearned most of his teachers.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To learn (something) completely and thoroughly; to exhaust knowledge of.
    • But when as nought according to his mind / He could outlearne1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24

Questions about outlearned

What is outlearned the simple past and past participle of?
Outlearned is the simple past and past participle of outlearn.

Words near outlearned in the dictionary

  1. outleaped
  2. outleaping
  3. outleaps
  4. outleapt
  5. outlearn
  6. outlearned
  7. outlearning
  8. outlearns
  9. outlearnt
  10. outled
  11. outler

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