˜yÐÄvlog

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outrow

[ out-roh ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to surpass in rowing; row; row faster than.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of outrow1

First recorded in 1520–30; out- + row 2
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Example Sentences

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Only by carefully observing fixed rules and by prolonged practice will you be able to attain to the harmonious ease and elegance by which a comparatively weak man can so economize his strength as to outrow and outlast some brawny giant who wastes his power in useless contortions.

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He has left the pieces in chronological order from 1964 to 1984, creating a portrait of a writer growing up, sharing first his wonderment that it can get terribly cold in Africa, and learning at last that he cannot outrow the currents of Nantucket Sound in a tiny skiff.

He could outrun, outrow, outwalk any of his townsmen.

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One thing is certain, we must outrow those two girls in the race.

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It was only natural, therefore, that the thirty communities should each insist upon having the crew of greatest excellence—the crew which could outrow any other five on the Bosphorus; and as every Byzantine Greek was a passionate gambler, the wagers were without end.

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