out-top

/aʊt tɒp/

verb

To have a top higher than another; to exceed.

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Meanings

verbout-top (third-person singular simple present out-tops, present participle out-topping, simple past and past participle out-topped)

present singular third person out-tops · participle present out-topping · participle past out-topped · past out-topped

  1. transitiveTo have a top higher than another; to exceed.

    Grey-coloured woods covered a large part of the surface. This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks of yellow sand-break in the lower lands, and by many tall trees of the pine family, out-topping the others--some singly, some in clumps....

    1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “How My Shore Adventure Began”, in Treasure Islandᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ

Origin

From out- + top.

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APA

out-top. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out-top

MLA

“out-top.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out-top. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “out-top,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out-top.

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