Crossword clues for outdid
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outdo \Out*do"\ (out*d[=oo]"), v. t. [imp. Outdid (out*d[i^]d"); p. p. Outdone (out*d[u^]n"); p. pr. & vb. n. Outdoing.] To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass.
An imposture outdoes the original.
--L' Estrange.
I grieve to be outdone by Gay.
--Swift.
To outdo oneself to surpass one's own previous best performance.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-simple past of: outdo)
WordNet
v. be or do something to a greater degree; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class" [syn: surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, surmount, outperform]
get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" [syn: outflank, trump, best, scoop]
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Usage examples of "outdid".
It was not unusual for him to bake eighty for a meal, so that each rider could have six or seven, but this night he outdid himself.
The cowboys, with a larger audience than expected, outdid themselves in crisp commands and boldly waved signals.
Acrobats outdid grasshoppers and rabbits with their leaping, tumbling antics.
The first Motecuzóma built for himself a modest country palace nearby, and other Mexíca rulers afterward enlarged and added to that palace until, in size and luxury, it rivaled any in the capital, and far outdid them all in the extent of its beauteous gardens and grounds.
People had gained on the Lizards since the days when the conquest fleet came, but the aliens' electronics still outdid anything mere humans made.
On almost every day, the pandemonium in the market square outdid the rest of Basra put together.
At last, in what the jubilant Twig termed a fit of genius, he thought of a way to shape the ones which were nearly good until they outdid those which were excellent.
Rosita outdid herself today and made enough to feed half your students.