outgo
noun
the act or process of going out.
outgone
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past participleof outgo.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
Example Sentences
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As they parted in the riotous dawn, Mario gave Lauro's city soccer team a $200,000 South American soccer player in token of friendship, and the mayor, not to be outgone, promised Mario a yacht.
From Time Magazine Archive
And now for some reflections upon popes, cardinals, and bishops, who in pomp and splendour have almost equalled if not outgone secular princes.
From In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus
It is the only thing in Europe, so far, which has entirely outgone my hopes.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
Lyly nor any of our late nineteenth-century "stylists" has outgone, perhaps none has touched, Eustathius in euphuism.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
But this, though not arduous, had outgone his ambition, nature having gifted him with a remarkable power of extracting nourishment from food, which is now called assimilation.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
