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outlistening

outlistening is the present participle and gerund of outlisten.

Meaning of outlisten

Verb

outlisten (third-person singular simple present outlistens, present participle outlistening, simple past and past participle outlistened)

  1. (transitive) To listen better than.
    • You've outlistened me.2014, Ken Willidau, Clothes Really Do Make the Man: My Life as a Fashion Victim, page 118

Questions about outlistening

What is outlistening the present participle and gerund of?
Outlistening is the present participle and gerund of outlisten.

Words near outlistening in the dictionary

  1. outlining
  2. outlink
  3. outlinks
  4. outlisten
  5. outlistened
  6. outlistening
  7. outlistens
  8. outlitigate
  9. outlitigated
  10. outlitigates
  11. outlitigating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outlistening (page history and authors); outlisten (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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