outdo

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

OUTDO, verb transitive preterit tense outdid; participle passive outdone. [See Do.] To excel; to surpass; to perform beyond another. An imposture outdoes the original. I grieve to be outdone by Gay.
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