Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To surpass in writing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To exceed or excel in writing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To write more or
better than. - verb obsolete To
transcribe ,write out
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Rankin, who can outwrite most anybody in the business, drops one clue too many early on, but he's so deft at maintaining a breakneck .... that readers will zip right along as he swings from whodunit to international conspiracy plot to war-story retribution."
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But what we also don't have, I think, is a male writer with his extreme crazy vulnerability, that giant desire to be loved—and of course to outscrew, outdrink, outfight and outwrite all the other boys, and the girls too.
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He shoved the Sports Editor's warning to the back of his mind because he was still sure that drunk or sober he could outwrite any other commentator in the business, given a story that was worth the trouble.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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I'm thinking he feels to keep goin so his son doesn't start to outwrite him lol, joking of course.
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Dude, you will not outwrite Wil Wheaton on childhood geek memories. the attempt came across as fauxstalgia A lot of the rest of the issue read like Star Trek promo porn.
Faster Than the Mind's Eye Rogers 2009
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He shoved the Sports Editor's warning to the back of his mind because he was still sure that drunk or sober he could outwrite any other commentator in the business, given a story that was worth the trouble.
Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998
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"Let the Comedie Humaine write itself and it will outwrite Balzac."
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell
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This says, you have a noble pattern; but I hope I may say, you outwrite your copy.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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In a Word, my half Education and Love of idle Books, made me outwrite all that made Love to her by way of Epistle; and as she was extremely cunning, she did well enough in Company by a skilful
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In a Word, my half Education and Love of idle Books, made me outwrite all that made Love to her by way of Epistle; and as she was extremely cunning, she did well enough in Company by a skilful
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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