outgo
/ˌaʊtˈɡoʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.34 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To go further than (someone or something); to exceed, to go beyond, to surpass.
Archaic; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "So then it will alwayes bee found trew, that God outgoeth all our prayers, and all our wiſhes."
- "Shepheards delights he dooth them all forſweare, / Hys pleaſaunt Pipe, whych made vs meriment, / He wylfully hath broke, and doth forbeare / His wonted ſongs, wherein he all outwent."
- "But when they came, where thou thy ſkill didſt ſhowe, / They drewe abacke, as halfe with ſhame confound, / Shepheard to ſee, them in theyr art outgoe."
- "[T]hy head ſhall ouerlooke the reſt, / As much as thou in rage out vvent'ſt the reſt."
- "Valor hath his limites, as other vertues have: vvhich if a man out-go, hee ſhall finde himſelfe in the traine of vice: […]"
- "In vvorth and excellence he ſhall out-go them, / Yet being above them, he ſhall be belovv them; […]"
Etymology
PIE word *úd The verb is derived from Middle English outgon (“to go out, depart, leave; to come out, emerge; to escape; to protrude; of a sword: to be drawn; to emanate from (a place); to accompany”), from Old English ūtgān (“to go out”), Proto-West Germanic *ūtgān (“to go out”), equivalent to out- + go. See also go out. Compare Middle English outwenden (“to go out, depart, leave; to escape; to be emitted, fly out from; of a weapon: to be drawn”), which, like modern outgo, had the past tense and past participle form outwent. The noun is derived from modern English out- (prefix meaning ‘away from; toward the outside of’) + go. Sense 1 (“cost, expenditure, or outlay”) was probably modelled on income. Cognates * Scots outgae * West Frisian útgean * Dutch uitgaan * German Low German utgahn * German ausgehen * Swedish utgå
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌaʊtˈɡoʊ/
- British English: /ˌaʊtˈɡəʊ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
outgoes (present, singular)
outgoing (participle, present)
outwent (past)
outgone (participle, past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
outwent (first person, past)
outgoest (archaic, present)
outwent (past, second person)
outwentst (archaic, past)
outgoeth (archaic, present)
outwent (past, singular)