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outmeasures

outmeasures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outmeasure.

Meaning of outmeasure

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)...

Questions about outmeasures

What is outmeasures the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Outmeasures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outmeasure.

Words near outmeasures in the dictionary

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

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