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outpleasing

outpleasing is the present participle and gerund of outplease.

Meaning of outplease

Verb

outplease (third-person singular simple present outpleases, present participle outpleasing, simple past and past participle outpleased)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in pleasing.
    • Dr. Ed Wheat has sagely said, “Every physical union should be a contest to see which partner can outplease the other.”1984, Tim LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye, What Lovemaking Means to a Man, page 32

Questions about outpleasing

What is outpleasing the present participle and gerund of?
Outpleasing is the present participle and gerund of outplease.

Words near outpleasing in the dictionary

  1. outpleading
  2. outpleads
  3. outplease
  4. outpleased
  5. outpleases
  6. outpleasing
  7. outplod
  8. outplodded
  9. outplodding
  10. outplods
  11. outplot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outpleasing (page history and authors); outplease (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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