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outspanned

outspanned is the simple past and past participle of outspan.

Meaning of outspan

Verb

outspan (third-person singular simple present outspans, present participle outspanning, simple past and past participle outspanned)

  1. (South Africa, transitive) To release oxen from a harness.
    • We had outspanned on in a flat covered with close grass about two feet high…The wagons, four in number, were drawn up off the road two abreast.1976, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longman, ISBN 058261231, page 126

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Questions about outspanned

What is outspanned the simple past and past participle of?
Outspanned is the simple past and past participle of outspan.

Words near outspanned in the dictionary

  1. outsources
  2. outsourcing
  3. outsourcings
  4. outspake
  5. outspan
  6. outspanned
  7. outspanning
  8. outspans
  9. outsparkle
  10. outsparkled
  11. outsparkles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outspanned (page history and authors); outspan (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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