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Outshine   /ˈaʊtʃˌaɪn/   Listen
verb
Outshine  v. t.  (past & past part. outshone; pres. part. outshining)  
1.
To surpass in splendor, excellence, or achievement. "A throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind."
2.
To shine more brightly than.


Outshine  v. i.  (past & past part. outshone; pres. part. outshining)  To shine forth. "Bright, outshining beams."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Outshine" Quotes from Famous Books



... of good taste in entertaining is that one who is wealthier than others of his social circle should not conspicuously outshine his neighbors by giving them a kind and degree of entertainment which will make their return of civilities seem poor and mean by comparison. Unless the rich man is so greatly beyond others in the scale of wealth that comparisons cease to be odious, ...
— Etiquette • Agnes H. Morton
... said he, addressing himself to the elder, "what is it but your goodness and humanity which make your bright eyes so sweet that they outshine the morning even in this dark passage? And what was it which made the Marquis de Santerre and his brother say so much of you both, as ...
— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.
... evenings for your pleasures, which are as much a part of your education, and almost as necessary a one, as your morning studies. Go to whatever assemblies or SPECTACLES people of fashion go to, and when you are there do as they do. Endeavor to outshine those who shine there the most, get the 'Garbo', the 'Gentilezza', the 'Leggeadria' of the Italians; make love to the most impertinent beauty of condition that you meet with, and be gallant with all the rest. Speak Italian, right or wrong, to everybody; and if you ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield
... in a dell through which a sleepy lane trickled between high banks—tea in the pocket garden under sweet-smelling limes, where stocks stood orderly and honeysuckle sprawled over the brick-nogging, brought back old days of happy fellowship, just to outshine their memory. ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
... Jove, take their sport along with her (then is Leto proud at seeing her daughter stand a full head taller than the others, and eclipse the loveliest amid a whole bevy of beauties), even so did the girl outshine her handmaids. ...
— The Odyssey • Homer


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