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Outshine   /ˈaʊtʃˌaɪn/   Listen
verb
Outshine  v. t.  (past & past part. outshone; pres. part. outshining)  
1.
To surpass in splendor, excellence, or achievement. "A throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind."
2.
To shine more brightly than.


Outshine  v. i.  (past & past part. outshone; pres. part. outshining)  To shine forth. "Bright, outshining beams."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Outshine" Quotes from Famous Books



... dear friend vouchsafed her only a spiteful glance in return for this proof of confidence. She was thinking of her own beauteous Lucinda, and mentally declared that her daughter should outshine Melinda Brown on that momentous occasion, if the worthy contractor had to go ...
— Clemence - The Schoolmistress of Waveland • Retta Babcock
... observation, or take a turn about the room, without being implored to "remember"—"not to tell"—not to let papa know this, or mamma that. I was not to let papa know how the boys were going to buy him a new inkstand, with a pen rack upon it, which was entirely to outshine all previous inkstands; nor tell mamma about the crochet bag that Emma was knitting for her. On all sides were mysterious whisperings, and showing of things wrapped in brown paper, glimpses of which, ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... is always the case on these occasions. The Divisional Horse Show, held towards the end of our rest, was undoubtedly the principal diversion of our time out, as each unit naturally did its utmost to outshine all others. The battery entered a gun team complete, consisting of six dapple-grey horses, and we succeeded in securing the second prize in the gunner's Derby. Curiously enough, (p. 079) the winners, our sister howitzer battery, won with five, out of six horses which ...
— Three years in France with the Guns: - Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery • C. A. Rose
... bright and fair; Nor pain nor death can enter there; Its glitt'ring towers the sun outshine; That ...
— The Otterbein Hymnal - For Use in Public and Social Worship • Edmund S. Lorenz
... did not know that Flaxie really had believed in those gold teeth, and had been comforted by thinking how Phil would outshine everybody by-and-by! And now the poor little girl was crying because it was all a mistake, and because Mrs. Prim ...
— The Twin Cousins • Sophie May


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