outshine
/aʊtˈʃaɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To shine brighter than something else
verb
To exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
Example Sentences
- "Four minutes later Walcott, who until then had been redundant as a lone striker owing to one-star service, was given his first decent pass of the game and duly took his chance to outshine the Senegalese, springing a poorly conceived offside trap to collect Lukas Podolski's ball and stroke a low 15-yard shot past Tim Krul and into the far corner."
- "Bright, outshining beams."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English shine English outshine From out- + shine.