outflourish

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

out- +‎ flourish

Verb[edit]

outflourish (third-person singular simple present outflourishes, present participle outflourishing, simple past and past participle outflourished)

  1. (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, []