outshine
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /aʊtˈʃaɪn/
Verb

outshine (outshines, present participle outshining; past and past participle outshone)

  1. To shine brighter than something else
  2. To exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
  3. (literary) To shine forth.
    • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iii]:
      Bright, outshining beams.
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