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- verb Past participle of
outgive
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Examples
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And in the minds of the colored population the American steamer is so intimately associated with the idea of those great tin cans in which food - stuffs are brought from the United States, that the onomatope applied to the can, because of the sound outgiven by it when tapped, -- _bom!
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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