outdo
verb (used with object)
to surpass in execution or performance.
had been outdoing
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past perfect progressiveof outdo.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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For months, the President's war production agencies had been outdoing each other in glowing reports, and the Truman Committee had told the people that $8 billion of war production contracts had been canceled.
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