outlearn
verbUK /aʊtˈlɜːn/ · US /aʊtˈlɝn/
Etymology From out- + learn.
1
To surpass (someone) in learning.
- By eleven years old, the young genius had outlearned most of his teachers.
2
Obsolete To learn (something) completely and thoroughly; to exhaust knowledge of.
- But when as nought according to his mind / He could outlearne1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24:
- To love and be beloved; / Men and gods have not outlearned it; / And, how oft soe'er they've turned it, / 'Tis not to be improved.1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Eros”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 150: