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outsmiling

outsmiling is the present participle and gerund of outsmile.

Meaning of outsmile

Verb

outsmile (third-person singular simple present outsmiles, present participle outsmiling, simple past and past participle outsmiled)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in smiling.
    • Down in the courtyard the crowd cheered and waved back. Frog, beside herself with excitement, outsmiled and outwaved them all.2003, Rosalind Allchin, The Frog Princess, page 12

Questions about outsmiling

What is outsmiling the present participle and gerund of?
Outsmiling is the present participle and gerund of outsmile.

Words near outsmiling in the dictionary

  1. outsmells
  2. outsmelt
  3. outsmile
  4. outsmiled
  5. outsmiles
  6. outsmiling
  7. outsmoke
  8. outsmoked
  9. outsmokes
  10. outsmoking
  11. outsmooth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outsmiling (page history and authors); outsmile (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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