Crossword clues for outdoing
outdoing
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
n. The act by which one person outdoes another. vb. (present participle of outdo English)
Usage examples of "outdoing".
At its highest it was only about one hundred feet, its translucent structure visible in all its details, strings of white fluorescent lights outdoing the translucent glimmer of the sunlight.
Soon Matzerath's program was very much what it had been in my poor mama's lifetime: he reigned in the kitchen, outdoing himself from Sunday roast to Sunday roast, and spent hours of his time contentedly washing the dishes.
Her cousin Fenneth was notoriously cantankerous and mistrustful, but she was outdoing herself this time.
He even runs for President, outdoing Ross Perot as a lightning rod for voter discontent.
Here a pearl-studded doublet, there a gold-thread-embroidered tuniceach noble seemed to be outdoing the next.