Meanings
verboutscorn (third-person singular simple present outscorns, present participle outscorning, simple past and past participle outscorned)
present singular third person outscorns · participle present outscorning · participle past outscorned · past outscorned
- transitiveTo overcome or overwhelm by haughty disregard; defy; scorn or despise.
“That’s a bit like asking a man to subject himself to his own Freudian analysis,” he said, and then ventured this answer: “I guess I am Lear and the kitchen is my heath, wherein I strive to outscorn the to-and-fro conflicting wind and rain.”
2007 June 14, Penelope Green, “Kitchen Tales”, in New York Times
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outscorn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outscorn
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“outscorn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outscorn. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outscorn,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outscorn.
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