outredden

English

Etymology

out- +‎ redden

Verb

outredden (third-person singular simple present outreddens, present participle outreddening, simple past and past participle outreddened)

  1. (transitive, poetic) To surpass in redness.
    • 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, part ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON:
      He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting
      Into glossy purples, which outredden
      All voluptuous garden-roses.

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