outgaze

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to look at someone more steadily or persistently until they look away

   The speaker tried to outgaze every challenger in the crowd.

2. 2
   verb

   rare: to see or gaze beyond

   From the hilltop she seemed able to outgaze the visible horizon.

Formed from out- in its competitive or surpassing sense + gaze. The principal meaning is to defeat another person's stare by gazing longer or more firmly; a rarer literal reading is to gaze beyond.

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