verbWord forms: -writes, -writing, -wrote or -written(transitive)
to be better at writing than
outwrite in American English
(ˌautˈrait)
transitive verbWord forms: -wrote or archaic -writ, -written or archaic -writ, -writing
to write more or better than
Word origin
[1635–45; out- + write]This word is first recorded in the period 1635–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: abutment, adjustment, cascade, linear, reactionout- is a prefixal use of the adverb out, occurring in various senses in compounds (outcast; outcome; outside), and serving also to form many transitive verbs denoting a going beyond, surpassing,or outdoing in the particular action indicated (outbid; outdo; outgeneral; outlast; outstay; outrate)