- past tense form of outgo.
outwent
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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But being much given up to women, and an idle habit of life, his expenses quickly outwent his profits, and thus in the space of some months reduced him to downright want.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Arthur L. Hayward
Yes, but all Was vainely labour'd in me; you outwent me, Nor could my wishes reach you; yet a little I did by imitation.
From The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
The zest, the fun, the excitement Sigurd infused into our human humdrum outwent all expectation.
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates
The cutter Was as another Nature, dumb; outwent her, Motion and breath left out.
From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
No lawyer in New England had laid down such southern "Principles" for foundation of law; he outwent Mr. Sprague.
From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker
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