Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To stand out plainly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To resist effectually; withstand; sustain without yielding.
- To stand or remain beyond; outstay.
- To project outward from the main body; stand out prominently; be prominent.
- To stand out to sea.
- To stand over; remain untouched, unimpaired, unsettled, uncollected, unpaid, or otherwise undetermined: as, outstanding contracts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To stand out, or project, from a surface or mass; hence, to remain standing out.
- transitive verb rare To resist effectually; to withstand; to sustain without yielding.
- transitive verb To stay beyond.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
resist effectually;withstand ;sustain withoutyielding . - verb transitive To
surpass instanding ;stand orremain beyond;outstay . - verb intransitive To
project outward from the main body;stand out prominently; be prominent. - verb intransitive To stand out to sea.
- verb intransitive To stand over; remain untouched, unimpaired, unsettled, uncollected, unpaid, or otherwise undetermined.
Etymologies
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Examples
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At first I thought nothing could possible outstand the Psy-Changeling series in your special dimension, but you made it!
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Total state and local debt outstand ing hit $200 million by 1840 and about $1 billion by 1880 ($22 billion in today's dollars).
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He had of course researched her stats, and learned that she was of average intelligence and creativity and per - sonality, and below average in motivation; only her outstand - ing body displaced her from the ordinary.
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Gag alert: She just impresses the hell out of me as an outstand career woman and has a good vibe and energy and I admire her as an individual.
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We need a woman President — and she would make an outstand-ing president of the United States!
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He will outstand in his family and will be a source of great pride and honor to his parents, brothers, and sisters.
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He will outstand in his family and will be a source of great pride and honor to his parents, brothers, and sisters.
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Or, as per Kirk, the real animals standing outstand waiting for attention to be petted?
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KING: We'll talk more, and we'll include your phone calls with our outstand panel.
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West Branch of the NP Youth and the UCDP Youth with their outstand - ing effort in coming together.
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