Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To exceed in measure or extent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
exceed inquantity orextent
Etymologies
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out- + measure
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Examples
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They are the measuring stick for everyone else, so how can you outmeasure yourself?
Archive 2007-05-01 Anxious Black Woman 2007
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They are the measuring stick for everyone else, so how can you outmeasure yourself?
Would Billie Holiday Win American Idol If She Were Still Alive? Anxious Black Woman 2007
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Down, downward they went, and yet further down -- their descent at each step seeming to outmeasure their advance.
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