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outshout

outshout verb: to shout louder or longer than.

Verb

outshout (third-person singular simple present outshouts, present participle outshouting, simple past and past participle outshouted)

  1. (transitive) To shout louder or longer than.
    • Ordinarily, sheʼd resort to outshouting the man.2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 196
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To gain more attention than.
    • This advertising campaign will outshout the competition.

Forms of outshout

third-person singular presentoutshouts
present participleoutshouting
past participleoutshouted
pastoutshouted

Origin of outshout

From out- + shout.

Questions about outshout

What does outshout mean?
Outshout means to shout louder or longer than.
What part of speech is outshout?
Outshout is a verb.
What is the past tense of outshout?
The past tense of outshout is outshouted.

Words near outshout in the dictionary

  1. outshopping
  2. outshops
  3. outshore
  4. outshot
  5. outshots
  6. outshout
  7. outshouted
  8. outshouting
  9. outshouts
  10. outshove
  11. outshow

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