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outworked

outworked is the simple past and past participle of outwork.

Meaning of outwork

Verb

outwork (third-person singular simple present outworks, present participle outworking, simple past and past participle outworked)

  1. (transitive) To work more, faster, or harder than (someone else).
    • A few may be able to outsmart him, but no one can outwork him.
  2. (obsolete, rare) To work out to a finish; to complete.
    • For now three dayes of men were full outwrought, / Since he this hardie enterprize began [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about outworked

What is outworked the simple past and past participle of?
Outworked is the simple past and past participle of outwork.

Words near outworked in the dictionary

  1. Outwoods
  2. outwooed
  3. outwooing
  4. outwore
  5. outwork
  6. outworked
  7. outworker
  8. outworkers
  9. outworking
  10. outworkings
  11. outworks

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