outshower
English
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[edit]outshower (third-person singular simple present outshowers, present participle outshowering, simple past and past participle outshowered)
- (transitive, now rare) To produce a greater shower than; to dispense in greater quantities than.
- 1862, F. S. D., Queen Elizabeth: a dramatic poem in five acts, page 144:
- Is not his hand so lavish of its gifts, / It would outshower the revenues of kingdoms?
- 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, page 320:
- The captain enjoyed the luxury of being pampered and fussed over by Pelagia as never before, and she expressed her relief by means of bombardments of kisses, tender words and promises that easily outshowered the rain of sand.