Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To surpass in venomous or poisonous character.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To exceed in venom.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
exceed invenom .
Etymologies
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out- + venom
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Examples
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As she wrote, she discovered her own passions surmounting those of her father, passions whose existence she had never previously suspected, and out onto the page there soared thundering condemnations and acid verdicts to rival and outvenom his.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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In his diary, Adams fumed that this fabricated tale was "a new form of slander-one of the thousand malicious lies which outvenom all the worms of the Nile, and are circulated in every part of the country in newspapers and pamphlets."
AmericanHeritage.com 2009
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