| 释义 |
outˈsweeten, v.
[out- 18.]
trans. To surpass in sweetening or in sweetness.
1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 224 No, nor The leafe of Eglantine..Out-sweetned not thy breath. 1867Tennyson Let. in Life (1897) II. ii. 47 The sweets of office outsweetened by the sweets of out of office. |