| 释义 |
out-ˈact, v.
[out- 18.]
trans. To surpass in acting or performing; to excel, outdo.
1644Bulwer Chiron. A iv, Demosthenes might here his garbe refine, And Cicero out-act his Cateline. 1776Mrs. Delany Lett. Ser. ii. II. 211 Garrick says ‘She so much outacted him it is time for him to leave the stage’. 1906Westm. Gaz. 2 June 6/3 The best of Hamlets [is sometimes] outacted by the worst of gravediggers. 1975D. Gray Ride on Tiger viii. 62 She knew she could out-act Anna any day. |