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outsum

outsum verb: to exceed in number or quantity.

Verb

outsum (third-person singular simple present outsums, present participle outsumming, simple past and past participle outsummed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To exceed in number or quantity.
    • She kept her faith; though Odo came by day With missions from the castle that outsummed
      His several hairs, and were of less respect; […]1852, George Henry Boker, The Podesta's Daughter, and Other Miscellaneous Poems, page 38
    • May thirtieth — I thank thee O Lord, in that thou hast made our support fund to outsum the preceding year by $2500. We received thru thy graciousness, $34,800.1937, William Plumer Jacobs, Thornwell Jacobs, Diary of William Plumer Jacobs, page 461
  2. (transitive) To exceed in total; outweigh
    • No one else cared for him; but he had an instinct that her great love for him outsummed all he could hope from others.1851, Caroline Sheridan Norton, Stuart of Dunleath, page 127
    • Nicholas quickly snatched it from the boy and returned it to its place. "Its value outsums any amount you can imagine."1985, Kay McMahon, Wild Rapture, page 65

Synonyms of outsum

Forms of outsum

third-person singular presentoutsums
present participleoutsumming
past participleoutsummed
pastoutsummed

Origin of outsum

From out- + sum.

Questions about outsum

What does outsum mean?
Outsum means to exceed in number or quantity.
What part of speech is outsum?
Outsum is a verb.
What is the past tense of outsum?
The past tense of outsum is outsummed.

Words near outsum in the dictionary

  1. outsuffers
  2. outsulk
  3. outsulked
  4. outsulking
  5. outsulks
  6. outsum
  7. outsummed
  8. outsumming
  9. outsums
  10. outsung
  11. outsurge

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