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outwent

[ out-went ]

verb

  1. simple past tense of outgo.


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I knew her for my equal mentally; in so many things she was beyond comparison cleverer than I; her courage outwent mine.

The zest, the fun, the excitement Sigurd infused into our human humdrum outwent all expectation.

And the people saw them going, and many knew them, and they ran together there on foot from all the cities, and outwent them.

To be addressed in that style by a great burly thief of an English skin-buyer, outwent all comprehension.

Indeed, we cannot say that at all points Shakspere outwent his guide.

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