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outshove

verb

Etymology

From Middle English outaschouven, ut-ascufan, from Old English *ūtāscūfan, *ūtāscēofan (“to push out”), equivalent to out- + shove.

  1. inherited from *ūtāscūfan✻
  2. inherited from outaschouven

Definitions

  1. To shove harder or better than

    To shove harder or better than; outcompete by shoving

    • Then the next thing anybody knows, the Yales outshove the Harvards, and now the game is over, and Mr. Phillips Randolph gets up out of his seat, and I hear Mr. Phillips Randolph say like this: […]
    • Thereupon they not only hatch a day or So earlier than the competing egg or eggs bu eventually outshove the rival young for food.

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