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outlearn

verb
/aʊtˈlɜːn/UK/aʊtˈlɝn/US

Etymology

From out- + learn.

  1. inherited from *lizaną✻
  2. inherited from *liʀnōn✻
  3. inherited from leornian — “to learn", rarely also, "to teach”
  4. inherited from lernen — “to learn", also, "to teach"”
  5. prefixed as outlearn — “out + learn”

Definitions

  1. To surpass (someone) in learning.

    • By eleven years old, the young genius had outlearned most of his teachers.

  2. To learn (something) completely and thoroughly

    To learn (something) completely and thoroughly; to exhaust knowledge of.

    • But when as nought according to his mind / He could outlearne
    • To love and be beloved; / Men and gods have not outlearned it; / And, how oft soe'er they've turned it, / 'Tis not to be improved.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA