outmost
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of outmost
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at out-, -most
Example Sentences
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"We will do our outmost to bring all stranded people back before Christmas."
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2022
Group 17 elements, including fluorine and chlorine, have seven electrons in their outmost shells, so they tend to fill this shell with an electron from other atoms or molecules, making them negatively charged ions.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The new boom has already wiped outmost vestiges of the deep downturn that hit the industry about the time of the Arab oil embargo in late 1973.
From Time Magazine Archive
And far out in the Pacific, 1,242 miles west of Kodiak, is the Navy's outmost listening post, Kiska Island, which can be used as an advance base for U. S. Navy operations.
From Time Magazine Archive
This milk flows much faster from about the outmost rimm, or part equivalent to the bark of plants, than from the more inward parts, &c.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William
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