outsparkle
verbEtymology From out- + sparkle.
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To exceed in sparkling.
- Her eyes outsparkled the jewels she wore.
- I want you to know about Tully because he is the epitome of good health, good habits, and a great disposition with a twinkle in his eye that will outsparkle the most precious diamond.2022, Bill Turiace, Restaurant Adventures:
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- Her cheeks were as round and red as lore-apples, and she had dancing blue eyes that appeared for ever engaged in good-natured efforts to outsparkle each other.2022, Marie Corelli, Thelma:
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Poetic To sparkle outwards.
- a youthful wight Smiling beneath a coral diadem Outsparkling sudden like an upturn'd gem.1818, John Keats, Endymion:
- Or did they rise, thus rude, And curl their uncouth ring in that same age Which saw the fair-proportioned Parthenon In its first finish of Pentelic marble, Outsparkle from the hand of Phidias?1838, John Kenyon, “Moonlight”, in Poems: For the Most Part Occasional:
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- A flushing font, a sure upheaving well, Which now outsparkled from its fountain-head To freshen even her trampled virgin wreath , Making her move aside to weep for death.1867, George Henry Calvert, Ellen: a Poem for the Times, page 19: