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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Living, great nature fear’d he might outvie Her works; and dying, fears herself may die.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
But thee, Love, he made Lest man should defy him, Connive and outvie him, And not be afraid: Nay, thee, Love, he gave His terrors to cover, And turn to a lover His insolent slave.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
Her main endeavor in this is to outvie her neighbors in the extravagance of fashion.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
There is a gladness in her eye, And in the wind her dancing tread Appears in swiftness to outvie The scurrying cloudlets overhead; In brief, her moods and graces are Appropriate to the calendar.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 by Various
From such elements as these I am alive to behold the day, wherein the corporation of authors can outvie all its brethren in the guild.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
