Definition of outrival in English:
outrival
verboutrivalling, outrivals, outrivalled, outrivaled, outrivaling aʊtˈrʌɪv(ə)l
[with object]archaic Surpass in competition or comparison.
〈古〉胜过
they outrivalled the Spaniards in fanatical ferocity
Example sentencesExamples
- Rather than being a ‘shining example of morality and good order,’ he noted, it often was the scene of ‘mad recklessness that outrivaled in lawlessness even the worst days of the early mining camps.’
- But I'm so red in the face that I outrival a lobster, and the freshmen mistake my mortification for an admission of guilt.
- The dress is sewn with a garden of silk roses, outrivalled by the natural roses in her corsage and those fallen from it.
- He has set up a kind of personality cult, which I think now outrivals Hitler or Stalin.
- I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes and the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland; but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all.
Synonyms
surpass, outshine, do better than
Rhymes
adjectival, arrival, deprival, genitival, imperatival, infinitival, relatival, revival, rival, substantival, survival