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outsparkle

outsparkle verb: to exceed in sparkling.

Verb

outsparkle (third-person singular simple present outsparkles, present participle outsparkling, simple past and past participle outsparkled)

  1. To exceed in sparkling.
    • Her eyes outsparkled the jewels she wore.
    • I want you to know about Tully because he is the epitome of good health, good habits, and a great disposition with a twinkle in his eye that will outsparkle the most precious diamond.2022, Bill Turiace, Restaurant Adventures
  2. (poetic) To sparkle outwards.
    • a youthful wight Smiling beneath a coral diadem Outsparkling sudden like an upturn'd gem.1818, John Keats, Endymion
    • Or did they rise, thus rude, And curl their uncouth ring in that same age Which saw the fair-proportioned Parthenon In its first finish of Pentelic marble, Outsparkle from the hand of Phidias?1838, John Kenyon, “Moonlight”, in Poems: For the Most Part Occasional

Examples of outsparkle in a sentence

  • Her cheeks were as round and red as lore-apples, and she had dancing blue eyes that appeared for ever engaged in good-natured efforts to outsparkle each other.2022, Marie Corelli, Thelma:
  • A flushing font, a sure upheaving well, Which now outsparkled from its fountain-head To freshen even her trampled virgin wreath , Making her move aside to weep for death.1867, George Henry Calvert, Ellen: a Poem for the Times, page 19:

Forms of outsparkle

third-person singular presentoutsparkles
present participleoutsparkling
past participleoutsparkled
pastoutsparkled

Origin of outsparkle

From out- + sparkle.

Questions about outsparkle

What does outsparkle mean?
Outsparkle means to exceed in sparkling.
How do you use outsparkle in a sentence?
Her cheeks were as round and red as lore-apples, and she had dancing blue eyes that appeared for ever engaged in good-natured efforts to outsparkle each other.
What part of speech is outsparkle?
Outsparkle is a verb.
What is the past tense of outsparkle?
The past tense of outsparkle is outsparkled.

Words near outsparkle in the dictionary

  1. outspake
  2. outspan
  3. outspanned
  4. outspanning
  5. outspans
  6. outsparkle
  7. outsparkled
  8. outsparkles
  9. outsparkling
  10. outspat
  11. outspeak

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