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outwinding

outwinding is the present participle and gerund of outwind.

Meaning of outwind

Verb (1)

outwind (third-person singular simple present outwinds, present participle outwinding, simple past and past participle outwound)

  1. (transitive) To extricate by winding; to unloose.
    • they haue him enclosed so behind, / As by no meanes he can himselfe outwind1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Verb (2)

outwind (third-person singular simple present outwinds, present participle outwinding, simple past and past participle outwinded)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in wind or breath.
    • The urchin had an elasticity of muscle, a capacity of stretch and endurance in his sinews, and a share of positive strength in his excessive breadth of shoulders, which made him little inferior in conflict to most ordinary men, and in speed he could have outwinded the best.1840, William Gilmore Simms, Border Beagles: A Tale of Mississippi

Questions about outwinding

What is outwinding the present participle and gerund of?
Outwinding is the present participle and gerund of outwind.

Words near outwinding in the dictionary

  1. outwilling
  2. outwills
  3. outwin
  4. outwind
  5. outwinded
  6. outwinding
  7. outwinds
  8. outwing
  9. outwinged
  10. outwinging
  11. outwings

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