Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To surpass in speaking; say or express more than; signify or claim superiority to; be superior to in meaning or significance.
- To speak out or aloud.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To exceed in speaking.
- transitive verb To speak openly or boldly.
- transitive verb To express more than.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
speak out oraloud . - verb transitive To
declare ;utter ;express ;vocalise . - verb transitive To
surpass inspeaking ;say or express more than;signify orclaim superiority to; besuperior to inmeaning orsignificance ; speak louder than.
Etymologies
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Examples
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She can outhink and outspeak Obama without a doubt.
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The McCain campaign understands that McCain cannot outspeak Barack, so they want McCain to dictate how to speak to people. it seems like he is more comfortable talking to 5 or 10 people at a time, than 40,000.
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Lastly, should Tiger Woods..er, Senator Obama, face McCain in the general not only will he out-debate and outspeak him.
A Rare Day in the Limelight - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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He had always thought well of himself, but never destroyed the good of it by saying so; and whoever praised him had to do it again, to outspeak his modesty.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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ROONEY: I heard how outspoken I was going to be, so I'm trying to outspeak.
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ROONEY: I heard how outspoken I was going to be, so I'm trying to outspeak.
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He had always thought well of himself, but never destroyed the good of it by saying so; and whoever praised him had to do it again, to outspeak his modesty.
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Foreheads, -- Oh, deign outspeak fierce wrath from bosom outbreathing,
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855
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Such changes have in some instances been made; and when so, how often does the old mansion, with outward features in good preservation, outspeak, in all the expression of home-bred comforts, the flashy, gimcrack neighbor, which in its plenitude of modern pretension looks so flauntingly down upon it!
Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Lewis Falley Allen 1845
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In the event, all of them started to outspeak each other about their commitment to women†™ s empowerment, never mind that all these years they have been niggardly about giving election tickets to women politicians.
The Times of India 2010
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