outsparkle

present singular third person outsparkles · participle present outsparkling · participle past outsparkled · past outsparkled

1. To exceed in sparkling.

   Her eyes outsparkled the jewels she wore.

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   I want you to know about Tully because he is the epitome of good health, good habits, and a great disposition with a twinkle in his eye that will outsparkle the most precious diamond.

   2022, Bill Turiace, Restaurant Adventures

   Her cheeks were as round and red as lore-apples, and she had dancing blue eyes that appeared for ever engaged in good-natured efforts to outsparkle each other.

   2022, Marie Corelli, Thelma

2. poeticTo sparkle outwards.

   a youthful wight Smiling beneath a coral diadem Outsparkling sudden like an upturn'd gem.

   1818, John Keats, Endymion

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   Or did they rise, thus rude, And curl their uncouth ring in that same age Which saw the fair-proportioned Parthenon In its first finish of Pentelic marble, Outsparkle from the hand of Phidias?

   1838, John Kenyon, “Moonlight”, in Poems: For the Most Part Occasional

   A flushing font, a sure upheaving well, Which now outsparkled from its fountain-head To freshen even her trampled virgin wreath , Making her move aside to weep for death.

   1867, George Henry Calvert, Ellen: a Poem for the Times, page 19