Meaning

To go further than (someone or something); to exceed, to go beyond, to surpass..

Definitions by Sense

1. To go further than (someone or something); to exceed, to go beyond, to surpass.
2. To experience, go through, or undergo (something).
3. To travel faster than (someone or something); to outstrip, to overtake.
4. To go out, to set forth, to set out.
5. To go too far; to overextend or overreach.
6. (countable, business, archaic except India) A cost, expenditure, or outlay.
7. (uncountable) The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing.
8. The means by which something flows or goes out; an outlet.

Example Sentences

So then it will alwayes bee found trew, that God outgoeth all our prayers, and all our wiſhes.

Shepheards delights he dooth them all forſweare, / Hys pleaſaunt Pipe, whych made vs meriment, / He wylfully hath broke, and doth forbeare / His wonted ſongs, wherein he all outwent.

But when they came, where thou thy ſkill didſt ſhowe, / They drewe abacke, as halfe with ſhame confound, / Shepheard to ſee, them in theyr art outgoe.

[T]hy head ſhall ouerlooke the reſt, / As much as thou in rage out vvent'ſt the reſt.

Valor hath his limites, as other vertues have: vvhich if a man out-go, hee ſhall finde himſelfe in the traine of vice: […]

In vvorth and excellence he ſhall out-go them, / Yet being above them, he ſhall be belovv them; […]

Ah! vvas it not enough that thou / By thy eternall glorie didſt outgo me?

I fear me, thou out-go'ſt the Prophet's Order; / And bring's his venerable Name, to ſhelter / A Rudeneſs ill becoming thee to uſe, / Or me to ſuffer.

Word Forms

• outgoes
• outgoing
• outwent
• outgone
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• outgo
• outgoest
• outwentst
• outgoeth
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• out-go
• outgos

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