Word info

out-do

Verb

Meaning

out-do (third-person singular simple present out-does, present participle out-doing, simple past out-did, past participle out-done)

Alternative form of outdo.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship. George J. Mitchell

Oh, we have had great lovers that we followed to the pyre; Our boasts out-do the Sabine girls-the Mosque of St. Sophia. And we are very sure of ours, for when a city falls, They seize us and they love us and they hurl us from the walls. Nathalia Crane

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