verb
- past tense and past participle of outspell; to spell better than someone else, especially in a spelling competition
Examples
- She outspelled all the other contestants in the regional spelling bee.
- The young student outspelled his older competitors with ease.
- After being outspelled in the first round, he practiced harder for next year.
- The champion had never been outspelled in three years of competition.
- Despite studying for weeks, she was outspelled by a word she had never seen before.