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outmastering

outmastering is the present participle and gerund of outmaster.

Meaning of outmaster

Verb

outmaster (third-person singular simple present outmasters, present participle outmastering, simple past and past participle outmastered)

  1. To overcome; to win or prevail in a competition.
    • Pleas'd with the guilt, yet envy-stung at heart To stand outmaster'd in his own black art!1835, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The poetical works of S.T. Coleridge - Volume 2, page 81

Questions about outmastering

What is outmastering the present participle and gerund of?
Outmastering is the present participle and gerund of outmaster.

Words near outmastering in the dictionary

  1. outmarvelled
  2. outmarvelling
  3. outmarvels
  4. outmaster
  5. outmastered
  6. outmastering
  7. outmasters
  8. outmatch
  9. outmatched
  10. outmatches
  11. outmatching

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