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单词 outsweep
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outsweepv.

Brit. /ˌaʊtˈswiːp/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈswip/
Inflections: Past tense and past participle outswept;
Forms: see out- prefix and sweep v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: out- prefix, sweep v.
Etymology: < out- prefix + sweep v. Compare to sweep out (see sweep v.) and also earlier outsweeping n.
Chiefly poetic. Now rare.
1. transitive. To sweep (something) out or away; to sweep beyond.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > do (something) to excess [verb (transitive)] > exceed or extend beyond
passa1387
surmount1502
surpassa1555
transcend1559
outreacha1568
surreach1606
paragona1616
outsweepa1729
overjump1877
a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) x. 48 Another then in shamefullwise out sweeps All Christians out of Office Power also, And common persons doth in Prison throw.
1837 E. S. Wortley Hours at Naples 70 In that sealed span—a span out-sweeping Space!—Where mighty Powers are met in stern array, And struggle sore for Conquest and for Sway.
1887 G. L. Taylor Centennial Poem 13 Apr. in Libr. Mag. (U.S.) Jan. (1888) 403 Our Davies' three-legged nothing's integration Outsweeps sublimest winged imagination.
a1923 H. Trench Romney Marshman's Love Song in Poems (1924) 157 Were the deep heaven's golden hosts Beneath our feet like these—Had we outswept the shade of Earth And the long sound of her seas.
1927 C. Martindale Relig. of World 54 Even as philosophy transcended the life of the senses, so direct intuition of God was to outsweep philosophy.
1951 J. Miles Continuity Eng. Poetry 61 His first of the great English local views does not outsweep his more compact abstract conceptions.
2. intransitive. To sweep outwards. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > move in a circle or curve [verb (intransitive)] > move in curve > out
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1867 G. MacDonald Three Horses in Poems xviii If a man withstand, outsweeps my brand: I slay him on the spot.
1883 A. Domett Ranolf & Amohia (rev. ed.) II. iv. v. 58 Mark the hundred baths in view..outsweeping white and wide, Like snowy lines of foam that glide O'er level sea-sands.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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