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OUTRIVAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outrival mean? 

OUTRIVAL (verb)
  The verb OUTRIVAL has 1 sense:

1. be more of a rival thanplay

  Familiarity information: OUTRIVAL used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OUTRIVAL (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they outrival  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it outrivals  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: outrivalled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: outrivalled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: outrivalling  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Be more of a rival than

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

outrival; outvie

Hypernyms (to "outrival" is one way to...):

rival (be the rival of, be in competition with)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something


 Context examples 


I learned the first two tenses of the verb Etre, and sketched my first cottage (whose walls, by-the- bye, outrivalled in slope those of the leaning tower of Pisa), on the same day.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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