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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
outrival .
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Examples
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It was not until the second summer that Daylight built the huge fireplace that outrivalled Ferguson's across the valley.
Chapter XXV 2010
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Nineveh, which had outrivalled Damascus, the Smile of the
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She had plenty to eat, as much tobacco as was good for her, and outer raiment that in gaudiness outrivalled the flame-tree and the yellow hibiscus.
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As for practical success they are outrivalled by the officials, who are men of business.
Lunheng 1962
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In a commercial competition too, the Great Western Canal of the States would be quite outrivalled by such a superior navigation.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger
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Great Jupiter, king of the Martian night, whose brilliancy, if not his size, outrivalled the pale moons; Saturn, with his tilted ring, was visible to the naked eye; and yon pearly blue star, just rising to announce the morning, was Earth.
Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Ellsworth Douglass
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Mulgrave, all set sail during this year, and in a few years discoveries were made which outrivalled all which had occurred since the expeditions of Columbus.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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This was not because the virtues of the person, in whose honour it was raised, were so conspicuous, or because they so far outrivalled those recorded on the other arches, that men were constrained to stop and ponder over a life so remarkable for its heroism.
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Stories that outrivalled the Arabian Nights clouded the realm of reason.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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The long walks, when, to make up for play, her father told her of foreign places with magical names, outrivalled in enchantment any legendary fables.
DEVELOPMENT A NOVEL BY W. BRYHER WITH A PREFACE BY AMY LOWELL 1920
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