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English
Etymology
From out- + do.
Pronunciation
Verb
outdo (third-person singular simple present outdoes, present participle outdoing, simple past outdid, past participle outdone)
- (transitive) To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass.
You've outdone yourself—another personal best!
Synonyms
Translations
to go beyond
- Bulgarian: надминавам (bg) (nadminavam), превъзхождам (bg) (prevǎzhoždam)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 超過 / 超过 (zh) (chāoguò), 勝過 / 胜过 (zh) (shèngguò)
- Czech: překonat (cs)
- Dutch: overtreffen (nl)
- Finnish: päihittää (fi)
- French: surpasser (fr)
- Galician: superar (gl)
- German: übertreffen (de)
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌷𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 (faurarahnjan)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ὑπερβάλλω (huperbállō)
- Hungarian: felülmúl (hu), túltesz (hu), túlszárnyal (hu), lepipál (hu)
- Indonesian: melampaui (id)
- Italian: fare meglio
- Japanese: 凌ぐ (ja) (しのぐ, shinogu), 打ち勝つ (ja) (うちかつ, uchikatsu)
- Latin: superō, praecellō
- Maori: pahika
- Persian: (please verify) بهتر انجام دادن از کسی دیگر
- Polish: prześcigać impf, prześcignąć pf, przewyższać (pl) impf, przewyższać (pl) pf
- Portuguese: superar (pt)
- Russian: превосходи́ть (ru) impf (prevosxodítʹ), превзойти́ (ru) pf (prevzojtí), перещеголя́ть (ru) pf (pereščegoljátʹ)
- Spanish: exceder (es), sobrepasar (es), pasar (es), superar (es), mejorar (es), llevar en la balastra (Nicaragua)
- Swedish: överträffa (sv)
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References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “outdo”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “outdo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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