outrival

verb

outrival

verb

Etymology From out- + rival.

1

To outperform; to outdo.

  • I learned the first two tenses of the verb Être, and sketched my first cottage (whose walls, by-the-by, outrivalled in slope those of the leaning tower of Pisa) on the same day.1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter VIII, in Jane Eyre:

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