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outlove

outlove verb: to love more than somebody else.

Verb

outlove (third-person singular simple present outloves, present participle outloving, simple past and past participle outloved)

  1. (transitive) To love more than somebody else.
    • He (Mr. S.) would have the Protestants of Ireland to outlove their Roman-catholic brethren, to outlove them and outlabour them.1850, Church Pastoral-aid Society, The Church of England Magazine, volume 28, London, page 37

Forms of outlove

third-person singular presentoutloves
present participleoutloving
past participleoutloved
pastoutloved

Origin of outlove

From out- + love.

Questions about outlove

What does outlove mean?
Outlove means to love more than somebody else.
What part of speech is outlove?
Outlove is a verb.
What is the past tense of outlove?
The past tense of outlove is outloved.

Words near outlove in the dictionary

  1. outlording
  2. outlords
  3. outlot
  4. outlots
  5. outloud
  6. outlove
  7. outloved
  8. outloves
  9. outloving
  10. outlung
  11. outlunge

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