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outshine

/aʊtˈʃaɪn/

outshine verb: to shine brighter than something else.

Verb

outshine (third-person singular simple present outshines, present participle outshining, simple past and past participle outshone or outshined)

  1. To shine brighter than something else
  2. To exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
    • Four minutes later Walcott, who until then had been redundant as a lone striker owing to one-star service, was given his first decent pass of the game and duly took his chance to outshine the Senegalese, springing a poorly conceived offside trap to collect Lukas Podolski's ball and stroke a low...2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    extinguish
  3. (literary) To shine forth, to give out light.
    • Bright, outshining beams.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

outshine meaning in Urdu, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

outshine in Urdu

بازی لے جانا, ماند کر دینا

outshine in Telugu

to outshine, to excel
గెలుచు gelucu

outshine in Malayalam

eclipse, surpass, overshadow
മറ്റുള്ളവരെക്കാൾ ശോഭിക്കുക, കൂടുതൽ തിളങ്ങുക, നിഷ്പ്രഭമാക്കുക, അതിശയിക്കുക, കവച്ചുവയ്ക്കുക, മങ്ങിക്കുക

outshine in Kannada

ಮೀರು, ಗೆಲ್ಲು, ಬೆಳಗು, ಜಯಗಳಿಸು, ಪ್ರಕಾಶಿಸು

Synonyms of outshine

Forms of outshine

third-person singular presentoutshines
present participleoutshining
past participleoutshone
pastoutshone
past participleoutshined
pastoutshined

Past tense of outshine: outshone or outshined

Origin of outshine

From out- + shine.

Words formed from outshine

Words that rhyme with outshine

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Questions about outshine

What does outshine mean?
Outshine means to shine brighter than something else.
What is outshine in Urdu?
Outshine in Urdu is بازی لے جانا, ماند کر دینا. See Outshine meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is outshine?
Outshine is a verb.
How do you pronounce outshine?
Outshine is pronounced /aʊtˈʃaɪn/.
What is the past tense of outshine?
The past tense of outshine is outshone.

Words near outshine in the dictionary

  1. outsheds
  2. outshift
  3. outshifted
  4. outshifting
  5. outshifts
  6. outshine
  7. outshined
  8. outshiner
  9. outshiners
  10. outshines
  11. outshining

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: outshine (page history and authors); outshine (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); గెలుచు (Telugu) (page history and authors); outshine (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); outshine (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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