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outshine

.aut'ʃain5 senses · 190 ms
Level C2GRE
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verb/aʊtˈʃaɪn/
  1. 1

    To shine brighter than something else

  2. 2

    To exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner

    • Four minutes later Walcott, who until then had been redundant as a lone striker owing to one-star service, was given his first decent pass of the game and duly took his chance to outshine the Senegalese, springing a poorly conceived offside
  3. 3

    To shine forth, to give out light.literary

    • Bright, outshining beams.

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