outshow
/aʊtˈʃoʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To surpass or exceed in showing; exceed in being shown, especially in contest, competition, or rivalry.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "He blushed to see another Sun below, / Ne durst again his fiery face outshow."
- "And yet the king did all their lookes outshow."
- "Mazurka 13th, now owned by Mr. Streator, at ten years old Is dam of eight living calves at single births, and we don't know a cow of her age that can outshow her."
- "Surely it is not vainglory nor a desire simply to outshow other nations which lead to the enormous expenditures involved in every international exposition."
- "We deal only with the facts, the outshow of the theory to which we object."
- "For an outshow, the gang of water has two waterstuff unclefts bound to one sourstuff uncleft; the gang of rust has two iron and three sourstuff unclefts; [...]"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: outschewen
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /aʊtˈʃoʊ/
- British English: /aʊtˈʃəʊ/