outmeasure
English
Verb
outmeasure (third-person singular simple present outmeasures, present participle outmeasuring, simple past and past participle outmeasured)
- (transitive) To exceed in quantity or extent.
- 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, “The Halt on the Turnpike-road”, in The Return of the Native […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC, book I (The Three Women), page 73:
- Down, downward they went, and yet further down—their descent at each step seeming to outmeasure their advance.
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