Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To outbid; outdo; surpass in rivalry or emulation.
Wiktionary
- v. To outdo a competitor or rival
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To exceed in vying.
WordNet 3.0
- v. be more of a rival than
Examples
“By charms that glorify the place and every charm outvie.”
“When shows that slender form that doth the willow-branch outvie.”
“This generation ought surely to be the last to laugh at such a story, at least as long as the Amazonian guards of the King of Dahomey continue to outvie the men in that relentless ferocity, with which they have subdued every neighboring tribe, save the Christians of Abbeokuta.”
“Thou must beg from those who have the giving of it; thou who covetest to outvie others in honour must lower thyself to the humble posture of petition.”
“Mr. Caton is violently carried off, locked up in a horrible stinking room, prevented from seeing his friends; after a day or two he is forced on board a tender, where Mr. Tripp, a midshipman, behaves with humanity, but the Captain and Lieutenant outvie each other in brutality; Captain Hamilton behaving as an ‘enraged partisan.’”
“Tholouse, whom Montoni had mentioned with more eclat to his own vanity than credit to their discretion, or regard to truth, she determined to give concerts, though she had neither ear nor taste for music; conversazioni, though she had no talents for conversation; and to outvie, if possible, in the gaieties of her parties and the magnificence of her liveries, all the noblesse of”
“Hence we were driven to the huge palace of Necessidades, which is but a wing of a building that no King of Portugal ought ever to be rich enough to complete, and which, if perfect, might outvie the”
“In their great pride and self-will, they always sought to press in the advance and take the post of danger, trying to outvie our Spanish chivalry.”
“As then grew the works up, no less stately in size than exquisite in form, the workmen striving to outvie the material and the design with the beauty of their workmanship, yet the most wonderful thing of all was the rapidity of their execution.”
“And, indeed, they showed the greatest emulation to outvie each other; especially Nicocreon, king of Salamis, and”
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Pneumatologia
Terms and phrases from John Owen's (1616-1683) theological writings, to some of which the collective title Pneumatologia has been posthumously applied. Some few of the terms listed herein are Septu...
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Outta Here
outfox, outrage, outlandish, outdo, outrigger, outrun, outstretch, outbid, outcry, outtake, output, outrank and 49 more...
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Nabokovia
slime, mnemoptical, reverbed, forefeel, fair copy, scriggle, gaufrette, inamorata, wanter, noctambule, incarnadine, intercadence and 59 more...
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mollusque It was a very warm day in June and the farcical air-conditioning system failed to outvie the whiffs of sweat and the sprayings of Krasnaya Moskva, an insidious perfume which imbued even the hard candy (named Ledenets vzlyotnyy, "take-off caramel," on the wrapper) generously distributed to us before the start of the flight.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 206 Jun 13, 2009