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outwaving

outwaving is the present participle and gerund of outwave.

Meaning of outwave

Verb

outwave (third-person singular simple present outwaves, present participle outwaving, simple past and past participle outwaved)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in waving; to wave more than.
    • 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
  2. (archaic, transitive) To wave outward.
    • The cowering eagle screamed its joy, / Its pinions plumed anew, / And proudly to the winds outwaved / Our flag of star and blue.1855, Cornelia J. Orme, Forget-me-nots from Dew Drop Dale, page 16

Questions about outwaving

What is outwaving the present participle and gerund of?
Outwaving is the present participle and gerund of outwave.

Words near outwaving in the dictionary

  1. outwatches
  2. outwatching
  3. outwave
  4. outwaved
  5. outwaves
  6. outwaving
  7. outway
  8. outways
  9. outweapon
  10. outweaponed
  11. outweaponing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outwaving (page history and authors); outwave (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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