outflourish

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verb

To flourish more than.

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Meanings

verboutflourish (third-person singular simple present outflourishes, present participle outflourishing, simple past and past participle outflourished)

present singular third person outflourishes · participle present outflourishing · participle past outflourished · past outflourished

  1. transitiveTo flourish more than.

    The body has outflourished the soul.

    1887, The Methodist Review, volume 24, page 291
    1 more example

    "Is it a world, a whole earth," he went on, "where the weeds mostly outflourish the flowers, […]

    1916, William Dean Howells, The Daughter of the Storage, and Other Things in Prose and Verse

Origin

From out- + flourish.

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Chicago

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