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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "out",
"3": "question"
},
"expansion": "out- + question",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "out- + question",
"forms": [
{
"form": "outquestions",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "outquestioning",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "outquestioned",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "outquestioned",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "outquestion (third-person singular simple present outquestions, present participle outquestioning, simple past and past participle outquestioned)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"categories": [
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"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with out-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1847, Great Britain. Committee on Education, Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, page 446",
"text": "Set two classes of monitors to question each other; so that one may try to outquestion the other. Explain to them the principal of every subject they have to teach.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To surpass in questioning."
],
"id": "en-outquestion-en-verb-Eyc8eUfM",
"links": [
[
"surpass",
"surpass"
],
[
"question",
"question"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To surpass in questioning."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "outquestion"
}
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "out",
"3": "question"
},
"expansion": "out- + question",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "out- + question",
"forms": [
{
"form": "outquestions",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "outquestioning",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "outquestioned",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "outquestioned",
"tags": [
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]
}
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"args": {},
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"name": "en-verb"
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],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"English lemmas",
"English terms prefixed with out-",
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],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1847, Great Britain. Committee on Education, Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, page 446",
"text": "Set two classes of monitors to question each other; so that one may try to outquestion the other. Explain to them the principal of every subject they have to teach.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To surpass in questioning."
],
"links": [
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[
"question",
"question"
]
],
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"(transitive) To surpass in questioning."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "outquestion"
}
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