outdoing

outdoing

1. present participle and gerund of outdo

outdoing (plural outdoings)

1. The act by which one person outdoes another.
   • 1805, George Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank, The Spirit of the Public Journals (quoting a correspondent, "Dangle")

     It appears to me to be saying next to nothing, when they say that such a performer is capital, another inferior, that one has outdone his usual outdoings, and that another has outdone the outdoings of every body else.

• doing out