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outnumbering

outnumbering is the present participle and gerund of outnumber.

Meaning of outnumber

Verb

outnumber (third-person singular simple present outnumbers, present participle outnumbering, simple past and past participle outnumbered)

  1. (stative, transitive) To be more in number than somebody or something.
    • Women outnumbered men by two to one.

Questions about outnumbering

What is outnumbering the present participle and gerund of?
Outnumbering is the present participle and gerund of outnumber.

Words near outnumbering in the dictionary

  1. outnoised
  2. outnoises
  3. outnoising
  4. outnumber
  5. outnumbered
  6. outnumbering
  7. outnumbers
  8. Outokumpu
  9. outorganize
  10. outorganized
  11. outorganizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outnumbering (page history and authors); outnumber (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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