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outslept

outslept is the simple past and past participle of outsleep.

Meaning of outsleep

Verb

outsleep (third-person singular simple present outsleeps, present participle outsleeping, simple past and past participle outslept)

  1. (transitive) To sleep longer than or beyond.
    • And often in his secret soul he prays
      To sleep through barren periods unaware,
      Arousing at some longed-for date of pleasure;
      Which having passed and yielded him small treasure,
      He would outsleep another term of care.1874, James Thomson, chapter XIII, in The City of Dreadful Night

Questions about outslept

What is outslept the simple past and past participle of?
Outslept is the simple past and past participle of outsleep.

Words near outslept in the dictionary

  1. outslanging
  2. outslangs
  3. outsleep
  4. outsleeping
  5. outsleeps
  6. outslept
  7. outslick
  8. outslicked
  9. outslicking
  10. outslicks
  11. outslid

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