Word.ws English Dictionary

outshove

outshove verb: to shove harder or better than; outcompete by shoving.

Verb

outshove (third-person singular simple present outshoves, present participle outshoving, simple past and past participle outshoved)

  1. (transitive) To shove harder or better than; outcompete by shoving
    • Then the next thing anybody knows, the Yales outshove the Harvards, and now the game is over, and Mr. Phillips Randolph gets up out of his seat, and I hear Mr. Phillips Randolph say like this: […]1946, Damon Runyon, Guys and dolls
    • Thereupon they not only hatch a day or So earlier than the competing egg or eggs bu eventually outshove the rival young for food.2013, Millard C Davis, Morning on the Mountain: Adirondack Adventures

Forms of outshove

third-person singular presentoutshoves
present participleoutshoving
past participleoutshoved
pastoutshoved

Origin of outshove

From Middle English outaschouven, ut-ascufan, from Old English *ūtāscūfan, *ūtāscēofan (“to push out”), equivalent to out- + shove.

Questions about outshove

What does outshove mean?
Outshove means to shove harder or better than; outcompete by shoving.
What part of speech is outshove?
Outshove is a verb.
What is the past tense of outshove?
The past tense of outshove is outshoved.

Words near outshove in the dictionary

  1. outshots
  2. outshout
  3. outshouted
  4. outshouting
  5. outshouts
  6. outshove
  7. outshow
  8. outshowed
  9. outshower
  10. outshowered
  11. outshowering

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: outshove (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: “outshove.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/outshove. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.