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Outgo   /ˈaʊtgˌoʊ/   Listen
Outgo

verb
(past outwent; past part. outgone; pres. part. outgoing)
1.
Be or do something to a greater degree.  Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass.  "She outdoes all other athletes" , "This exceeds all my expectations" , "This car outperforms all others in its class"






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"Outgo" Quotes from Famous Books



... Shouting together to their steeds, they shook The reins, and all the course was filled with noise Of rattling chariots, and the dust arose To heaven. Now all in a confused throng Spared not the goad, each eager to outgo The crowded axles and the snorting steeds; For close about his nimbly circling wheels And stooping sides fell flakes of panted foam. Orestes, ever nearest at the turn, With whirling axle seemed to graze the stone, And loosing with free rein ...
— The Seven Plays in English Verse • Sophocles

... richness and workmanship as that of the true and faithful Juliet. And lord Capulet in return said that he would raise another statue to Romeo. So did these poor old lords, when it was too late, strive to outgo each other in mutual courtesies: while so deadly had been their rage and enmity in past times, that nothing but the fearful overthrow of their children (poor sacrifices to their quarrels and dissensions) could remove the rooted hates and ...
— Books for Children - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 3 • Charles and Mary Lamb

... they did own was Clark's Field, and Mrs. John sometimes thought it would be better if that had gone the way of the rest of the Clark farm, so insidious was its moral influence upon the men as well as costly in the way of outgo.... ...
— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick

... the use of your reason, then? Can you not see with that? That is the kind of sight we talk of here. It's the want of that which makes these falls. We have eyes with which to foresee effects,—eyes which outgo all the senses with their range of observation, with their range of certainty ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon

... farthing. Lucy makes the income meet the outgo. The farm feeds the family and Harry earns more than a little out of the music and ...
— The Measure of a Man • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... Kelly it meant terrible material disaster. He had no money. Like every rigidly honest man, he had found that going into politics was expensive and that his salary as Assemblyman did not cover the financial outgo. He had lost his practice and he had incurred the ill will of the powerful, so that it was impossible at the moment to pick up his practice again; and the worry and disappointment affected him so much that shortly after election he was struck down by sickness. Just before Christmas ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt



Words linked to "Outgo" :   outgrow, transferred possession, outweigh, outshout, outfox, cost, outwit, out-herod, outpace, circumvent, overreach, outwear, beat out, exceed, outsmart, vanquish, beat, outstrip, outbrave, shell, outsail, crush, surpass, trounce, outcry, outrange, surmount, expense, break, outlay, outsell, outdraw, shame, income, transfer payment, transferred property, outmarch, outroar, better, outshine



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