outmeasure

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verb

To exceed in quantity or extent.

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Meanings

verboutmeasure (third-person singular simple present outmeasures, present participle outmeasuring, simple past and past participle outmeasured)

present singular third person outmeasures · participle present outmeasuring · participle past outmeasured · past outmeasured

  1. transitiveTo exceed in quantity or extent.

    Down, downward they went, and yet further down—their descent at each step seeming to outmeasure their advance.

    1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, “The Halt on the Turnpike-road”, in The Return of the Native […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC, book I (The Three Women), page 73

Origin

From out- + measure.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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