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Outdo vs Outwork - What's the difference?

outdo | outwork |

As verbs the difference between outdo and outwork

is that outdo is to excel; go beyond in performance; surpass while outwork is to work out to a finish; to complete.

As a noun outwork is

a minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.

outdo

English

Verb

  • To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass.

    • Synonyms

    * (to surpass) to outperform, to outrival

    References

    * * English irregular verbs

    outwork

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To work out to a finish; to complete.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
    • For now three dayes of men were full outwrought , / Since he this hardie enterprize began [...].
  • To work faster or harder than.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia outwork) (en noun)
  • A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.

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