outdo
verb (used with object)
to surpass in execution or performance.
are outdoing
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present progressiveof outdo.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The bar onstage is open for business and patrons on guitars, fiddles, drums and accordion are outdoing one another with anthems to the woeful miseries of love soured.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 7, 2011
They are freely discussing its merits, and with their gay chatter are outdoing the noisy fire.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
Who does not know how our great men are outdoing themselves, in declaiming against the foreign slave-trade.
From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
The greatest uproar prevails all about; the Koshare are outdoing themselves; they scatter delirious joy, pleasure, delight, broadcast among the people.
From The Delight Makers by Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse
Much has been written about the abuse of advertising in America, but Englishmen, sad to say, have in these latter days outdone, and are outdoing, those crimes, while America itself is retrieving its reputation.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
