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outrivalling

outrivalling is the present participle and gerund 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 outrivalling

alternative formoutrivaling

Questions about outrivalling

What is outrivalling the present participle and gerund of?
Outrivalling is the present participle and gerund of outrival.

Words near outrivalling in the dictionary

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

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