vie
verb (used without object)
to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority.
outvie
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a word derived from
vie.
Example Sentences
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It seemed, indeed, that the Danish and Swedish knights, at this joyful festivity, only sought to outvie each other in gentle bearing and knightly courtesies.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
Try to outvie and outdo and even affront that dove-like simplicity he used to adore in you, and into which you are still apt to relapse.
From A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
In fact, he caused the manufacture of a garment to be commenced which he intended should outvie in magnificence and in costly adornments all that had ever before been fabricated.
From Pyrrhus Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
There Nature reigns, whose works outvie The boldest pattern art can frame; There ages past have rolled away, And forests bloomed but to decay.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Philip Freneau
At such times several individuals are usually seen together, and all seem striving to outvie each other in the beauty of their evolutions.
From Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
