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outdo, v.|aʊtˈduː|
[out- 15, 18, 18 c.]
†1. trans. To put out. (In ME. two words: cf. do out.) Obs.
13..Cursor M. 989 Adam was out don nais and naked, In to þe land quar he was maked. 1603Drayton Bar. Wars v. li, Was ta'en in battle and his eyes out-done.
2. To exceed in doing or performance; to excel, surpass, beat; to be superior to.
1607Shakes. Cor. ii. i. 150 He hath in this action out-done his former deeds doubly. 1623B. Jonson On Portr. Shaks. in Folio, Wherein the Grauer had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life. 1713Steele Guard. No. 170 ⁋28 They outdo us so much in cheapness of labour. 1804Wordsw. ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ iii, The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee. 1877Black Green Past. xxxiv. (1878) 274 The other two women were not to be outdone.
b. To beat, defeat, overcome; to exhaust.
1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. title-p., To Out-do the Dutch without Fighting, to Pay Debts without Moneys. 1776A. R. Robbins Jrnl. (1850) 24, I feel weak, and find that a little labor, walking and rowing, seems to out-do me. 1869J. D. Baldwin Preh. Nations iii. (1877) 107 If they were not outdone by the insane chronology.
Hence outˈdoing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; outˈdoer, one who outdoes another.
1679Phil. Collections XII. 38 His Observations so wholly new and out-doing, that no..Reader can think he wants anything but Equals. 1727Pope, etc. Art Sinking 121 They continue to out-do even their own out-doings. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 173 His rival,..an out⁓doer by profession. 1840Th. Hook in New Monthly Mag. LX. 11 The pink of perfection far outdid his usual outdoings. |