outswear
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]outswear (third-person singular simple present outswears, present participle outswearing, simple past outswore, past participle outsworn)
- (transitive) To swear (use vulgar or profane language) more frequently or powerfully than.
- 1998, Jane Resh Thomas, Behind the mask: the life of Queen Elizabeth I:
- When she was not speaking honeyed words, she used earthy language, outswearing the men around her.