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outrivals

outrivals is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about outrivals

What is outrivals the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Outrivals is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outrival.

Words near outrivals in the dictionary

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

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