outredden
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[edit]Verb
[edit]outredden (third-person singular simple present outreddens, present participle outreddening, simple past and past participle outreddened)
- (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.