Word.ws English Dictionary

outscouting

outscouting is the present participle and gerund of outscout.

Meaning of outscout

Verb

outscout (third-person singular simple present outscouts, present participle outscouting, simple past and past participle outscouted)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in scouting, or reconnaissance.
    • In the Matabele campaign he had out[-]scouted the savage scouts and found his pleasure in tracking them among their native mountains, […]1900, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Siege of Mafeking”, in The Great Boer War, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 404
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To overpower by disdain; to outface.
    • Steel your thoughts, ſharp your reſolue, imboldẽ your spirit, graſp your ſvvords; alarum miſchief, & vvith an vndãted brovv, out ſcout the grim oppoſition of most menacing perill.1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […]...

See all 4 meanings of outscout

Questions about outscouting

What is outscouting the present participle and gerund of?
Outscouting is the present participle and gerund of outscout.

Words near outscouting in the dictionary

  1. outscour
  2. outscouring
  3. outscourings
  4. outscout
  5. outscouted
  6. outscouting
  7. outscouts
  8. outscrape
  9. outscream
  10. outscreamed
  11. outscreaming

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: outscouting (page history and authors); outscout (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “outscouting.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/outscouting. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.