outplod
English
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editoutplod (third-person singular simple present outplods, present participle outplodding, simple past and past participle outplodded)
- (transitive) To plod further or faster than.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book IV (Terror):
- […] under the still night-canopy they plod along;—and yet behold, Rumour has outplodded them.