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outrivalled

outrivalled 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 outrivalled

alternative formoutrivaled

Questions about outrivalled

What is outrivalled the simple past and past participle of?
Outrivalled is the simple past and past participle of outrival.

Words near outrivalled in the dictionary

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

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