outredden

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Etymology

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From out- +‎ redden.

Verb

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outredden (third-person singular simple present outreddens, present participle outreddening, simple past and past participle outreddened)

  1. (transitive, poetic) To surpass in redness.
    • 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, [], →OCLC, part ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON:
      He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting
      Into glossy purples, which outredden
      All voluptuous garden-roses.

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