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outmeasure

outmeasure verb: to exceed in quantity or extent.

Verb

outmeasure (third-person singular simple present outmeasures, present participle outmeasuring, simple past and past participle outmeasured)

  1. (transitive) To exceed in quantity or extent.
    • Down, downward they went, and yet further down—their descent at each step seeming to outmeasure their advance.1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, “The Halt on the Turnpike-road”, in The Return of the Native […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC, book I (The Three Women)...

Forms of outmeasure

third-person singular presentoutmeasures
present participleoutmeasuring
past participleoutmeasured
pastoutmeasured

Origin of outmeasure

From out- + measure.

Questions about outmeasure

What does outmeasure mean?
Outmeasure means to exceed in quantity or extent.
What part of speech is outmeasure?
Outmeasure is a verb.
What is the past tense of outmeasure?
The past tense of outmeasure is outmeasured.

Words near outmeasure in the dictionary

  1. outmatching
  2. outmate
  3. outmated
  4. outmates
  5. outmating
  6. outmeasure
  7. outmeasured
  8. outmeasures
  9. outmeasuring
  10. outmetal
  11. outmetalled

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