Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To outdo (another) in talking.
- transitive verb To outwit by talking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To overpower by talking; surpass in talking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To overpower by talking; to exceed in talking; to talk down.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
overpower ,outdo , orsurpass intalking . - verb transitive To
outwit by talking.
Etymologies
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Examples
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His eyes could outtalk his tongue and that is saying a good deal, for he was a very remarkable talker.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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As he arrives city after city, major media will revisit the controversy over its site near Ground Zero and Rauf will endeavor to outtalk, outpray, objections to the project, which was also the number one religion story of the year on the RNA List.
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Throughout history people have come along who were able to outtalk and outthink their neighbors, like the paradox-bearing sophists of ancient Greece or the mocking philosophes of the eighteenth century French salon.
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The long “conversation” would also allow the Federalists to outtalk everyone else.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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The long “conversation” would also allow the Federalists to outtalk everyone else.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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His eyes could outtalk his tongue and that is saying a good deal, for he was a very remarkable talker.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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The long “conversation” would also allow the Federalists to outtalk everyone else.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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She could outrun, out-throw, out-swim, and outtalk anyone that challenged her.
The Sluice 2009
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Did you ever watch the Sunday political talk shows, and the regular cavalcade of aggressively conservative pols and pundits, who usually outnumber and outtalk the handful of passive "liberals," many of whom aren't even that liberal?
Will Bunch: How Journalism Plays Twister...To the Right 2009
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I watched my cousins raised in an environment where yelling was done to outtalk each other and discipline.
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