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outlearns

outlearns is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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What is outlearns the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Outlearns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outlearn.

Words near outlearns in the dictionary

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

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