Meaning

3 senses
  1. To mate with an individual who is not part of one's immediate social group.

  2. (transitive)To surpass in finding mates; to outbreed.

  3. (obsolete, transitive)To outmatch.

Origin

From out- + mate.

From out- + mate.

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Forms

outmates, outmating, outmated, outmated
Base formoutmate · to outmate
3rd person singularoutmates
Present participleoutmating
Past simpleoutmated
Past participleoutmated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoutmate
he, she, itoutmates

Past simpleLesson

all personsoutmated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave outmated
he, she, ithas outmated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill outmate

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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