Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To remain in the open air; camp out.
- To outdo in lying; be or show one's self to be a greater liar than.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To exceed in lying.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb rare (
transitive ) To tell more or betterlies than. - verb rare To
lie outside , or at theextremes orperiphery .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Why not give that to a worthy cause like this instead of trying to outlie each other in tv ads?
The Cyclone’s Wake, Seen in Taxi Headlights - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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You can be the worlds biggest hypocritical liar and pervert and if you can outlie and outsmear your opponent you can win a free trip to the all you can steal taxpayer trough.
Think Progress » Americans will spend 5x more on Halloween 2006
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Boobies (Pelecanus sula), gulls, petrels, and men-of-war birds (P. aquila), flew about the ship; according to the experts, they were bound for fetid marshes which outlie the Loge
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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He had been trained in the old school of diplomacy and he could outlie his opponents just as he could outwalk them and outdrink them and outride them.
The Story of Mankind 1921
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Well, this fellow can outlie the ` Witling of Terror 'and not half try.
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They outlie the southern coast of the United States and guard the approaches to the ports of Mexico, Venezuela, and the Isthmus, by which we reach from the east the western coasts of Mexico and of the
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 1: Ulysses S. Grant 1878
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For many years this comfortable mole excited the strongest opposition: it was wasting money, and the stones, carelessly thrown in, would at once be carried off by the sea and increase the drenching breakers which outlie the beach.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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We passed the Castles of San Fernando and La Catalina to the villas and the gardens planted with thin trees that outlie the north; and we entered the capital by a neat bridge thrown over the Barranco de la Mata, where a wall from the upper castle once kept out the doughty aborigines.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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[FN#120] The rubbish heaps which outlie Eastern cities, some
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Boobies (Pelecanus sula), gulls, petrels, and men - of-war birds (P. aquila), flew about the ship; according to the experts, they were bound for fetid marshes which outlie the Loge
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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