outslide

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

out- +‎ slide

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

outslide (third-person singular simple present outslides, present participle outsliding, simple past and past participle outslid)

  1. (poetic) To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding.
    • 1869, John Greenleaf Whittier, “At Port Royal”, in National Lyrics:
      At last our grating keels outslide,
      Our good boats forward swing
  2. To slide better than

References[edit]

outslide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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