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outrivaled

outrivaled is the simple past and past participle of outrival.

Meaning of outrival

Verb

outrival (third-person singular simple present outrivals, present participle (US) outrivaling or (UK) outrivalling, simple past and past participle (US) outrivaled or (UK) outrivalled)

  1. (transitive) To outperform; to outdo.
    • I learned the first two tenses of the verb Être, and sketched my first cottage (whose walls, by-the-by, outrivalled in slope those of the leaning tower of Pisa) on the same day.1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter VIII, in Jane Eyre

Forms of outrivaled

alternative formoutrivalled

Questions about outrivaled

What is outrivaled the simple past and past participle of?
Outrivaled is the simple past and past participle of outrival.

Words near outrivaled in the dictionary

  1. outrise
  2. outrisen
  3. outrises
  4. outrising
  5. outrival
  6. outrivaled
  7. outrivaling
  8. outrivalled
  9. outrivalling
  10. outrivals
  11. outrive

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