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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of outdare.

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Examples

  • One powerful reason is that the Serbs have outdared and outsmarted a gun-shy international community.

    A Fight Among Friends 2008

  • For women to women, thou knowest, are great darers and incentives: not one of them loving to be outdone or outdared, when their hearts are thoroughly warmed.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Morton felt himself outdared and outdone by the courage and calmness of this humble servant of Christ.

    Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters

  • But from all these perils, of the real and the fanciful, of the commonplace path and the way of reckless ingenuity, Terry Lute emerged at last with the reputation of having airily outdared every devil of the waters of Out-of-the-Way.

    Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. Norman Duncan 1893

  • For women to women, thou knowest, are great darers and incentives: not one of them loving to be outdone or outdared, when their hearts are thoroughly warmed.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 Samuel Richardson 1725

  • Add revenue officers often outsmarted and outdared by tough, clever Highland free-traders, and it's a great recipe for fiction.

    Word Wenches 2009

  • Add revenue officers often outsmarted and outdared by tough, clever Highland free-traders, and it's a great recipe for fiction.

    Word Wenches 2009

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