outflourish
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outflourish (third-person singular simple present outflourishes, present participle outflourishing, simple past and past participle outflourished)
- (transitive) To flourish more than.
- 1887, The Methodist Review, volume 24, page 291:
- The body has outflourished the soul.
- 1916, William Dean Howells, The Daughter of the Storage, and Other Things in Prose and Verse:
- "Is it a world, a whole earth," he went on, "where the weeds mostly outflourish the flowers, […]