Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To get out of.
  • To get out.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To win a way out of.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From out- +‎ win.

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Examples

  • Absolutely true, I mean, the game is called "Survivor: outwin, outlast, out play."

    CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2009 2009

  • Now, if by chance she has some chromosomal abnormality which you're alluding to, which we refer to as intersex, that would not result in a superwoman and would not give her the ability to outwin all these other women.

    CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2009 2009

  • And we three hearty souls outwin his reasoning sense, and he has to explain he was only jesting all the time; surely we could see that.

    A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings 2003

  • And we three hearty souls outwin his reasoning sense, and he has to explain he was only jesting all the time; surely we could see that.

    Wanderers Knut Hamsun 1905

  • Do you foresee that Vietnam is going to outwin us or we will become second Indonesia or Philippines?

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2010

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