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outsnapping

outsnapping is the present participle and gerund of outsnap.

Meaning of outsnap

Verb

outsnap (third-person singular simple present outsnaps, present participle outsnapping, simple past and past participle outsnapped)

  1. (informal, transitive) To outphotograph.
    • Aerial photography was coming into its own, and flying shutterbugs pushed the envelope, striving to outsnap each other.1992, Popular Mechanics, volume 169, number 11, page 18

Questions about outsnapping

What is outsnapping the present participle and gerund of?
Outsnapping is the present participle and gerund of outsnap.

Words near outsnapping in the dictionary

  1. outsmoothed
  2. outsmoothing
  3. outsmooths
  4. outsnap
  5. outsnapped
  6. outsnapping
  7. outsnaps
  8. outsnatch
  9. outsnatched
  10. outsnatches
  11. outsnatching

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outsnapping (page history and authors); outsnap (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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