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outlearnt

outlearnt 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 outlearnt

What is outlearnt the simple past and past participle of?
Outlearnt is the simple past and past participle of outlearn.

Words near outlearnt in the dictionary

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

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