单词 | out-top |
释义 | out-topv. 1. transitive. To outdo (a person) or surpass (a thing); to trump. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] overstyeOE overshinec1175 overgoc1225 passc1225 surmountc1369 forpassc1374 overmatcha1375 overpassa1382 to pass overa1393 overcomec1400 outpass?a1425 exceedc1425 precedec1425 superexcelc1429 transcendc1430 precel?a1439 outcut1447 overgrowc1475 to come over ——a1479 excel1493 overleapa1500 vanquish1533 outweigh1534 prevent1540 better1548 preferc1550 outgo1553 surpassa1555 exsuperate1559 cote1566 overtop1567 outrun1575 outstrip1579 outsail1580 overruna1586 pre-excel1587 outbid1589 outbrave1589 out-cote1589 top1590 outmatch1593 outvie1594 superate1595 surbravec1600 oversile1608 over-height1611 overstride1614 outdoa1616 outlustrea1616 outpeera1616 outstrikea1616 outrival1622 antecede1624 out-top1624 antecell1625 out-pitch1627 over-merit1629 outblazea1634 surmatch1636 overdoa1640 overact1643 outact1644 worst1646 overspana1657 outsoar1674 outdazzle1691 to cut down1713 ding1724 to cut out1738 cap1821 by-pass1848 overtower1850 pretergress1851 outray1876 outreach1879 cut1884 outperform1937 outrate1955 one-up1963 1624 Abp. J. Williams Let. 24 May in Cabala (1654) 94 The Treasurers..began then to out-top me, and appeared..likely enough..in time to do as much to your Grace. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. K6v Reason ought to bear away the bell. But irefull ignorance cannot abide To be outtopd, reprochfully twill yell. 1764 ‘G. Psalmanazar’ Memoirs 73 He doubted not but to see me outtop all the rest in less than a year or two. 1770 E. Thompson Trinculo's Trip to Jubilee 22 Garrick superior stood alone, His usual brightness he outshone, Out-top'd his former spirit. 1814 F. Burney Wanderer II. iii. xxvii. 179 I have never seen you since that night of our all acting together in that play, when you out-topped us all so to nothing! 1860 F. Temple in Ess. & Rev. 12 The idea of monotheism out-tops all other ideas in dignity and worth. 1928 Social Forces 6 331/1 No geniuses of the future can out-top the best of the past. 1992 English 41 99 Lear's agonies, though also, perhaps, his joys however transitory or delusive, will outtop Gloucester's. 2. transitive. To exceed in height; to rise above; to surmount. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > make high(er) [verb (transitive)] > exceed in height surmountc1374 overpassa1400 passc1400 overpeer1565 overcrop1567 overlook1567 overtop1578 top1582 superate1599 overtip?a1607 over-heighten?1611 out-topa1672 overtower1812 a1672 F. Willughby Bk. of Games (2003) 221 They thrust up their necks & strive to out top one another. 1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 161 To the Northwest is a high mountain that out-tops all, with its three rising little hills. 1777 G. Forster Voy. round World II. 170 Innumerable coco-palms out-topped the woods. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xii. 85 Unable..to send out lateral branches, like stalks of grain they had all grown straight up, hastening, as in a race, each to out-top its neighbour. 1877 G. F. Maclear St. Mark (1879) iv. 55 The thorns gradually out-topped it. 1898 Science 29 July 120/2 It will be seen that on June 11th the gypsum wheat actually out-topped that from the adobe soil. 1955 Times 29 Aug. 8/6 Its spires easily out-top the minarets of the principal mosque. 1986 P. D. James Taste of Death ii. iv. 201 Nellie Ackroyd..was slim where he was plumpish..and out-topped him by three inches. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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