different between outlearn vs outwork

English

Etymology

out- +? learn

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lûn, IPA^(key): /a?t?l??n/
• (General American) enPR: lûrn, IPA^(key): /a?t?l?n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Verb

outlearn (third-person singular simple present outlearns, present participle outlearning, simple past and past participle outlearned or outlearnt)

1. (transitive) To surpass in learning.

   By eleven years old, the young genius had outlearned most of his teachers.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To learn completely and thoroughly; to exhaust knowledge of.
   • 1847, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eros

     Men and gods have not outlearned it [love].

Translations

English

Etymology

out- +? work

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (verb): enPR: out-wûk?, IPA^(key): /a?t?w??k/
  • (noun): enPR: out?wûk, IPA^(key): /?a?tw??k/
• (General American)
  • (verb): enPR: out-wûrk?, IPA^(key): /a?t?w???k/
  • (noun): enPR: out?wûrk, IPA^(key): /?a?tw???k/

Verb

outwork (third-person singular simple present outworks, present participle outworking, simple past and past participle outworked)

1. (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 [...].

2. To work faster or harder than.

Noun

outwork (countable and uncountable, plural outworks)

1. (architecture, countable) A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.
2. Agricultural work done outdoors in the fields.

Translations

Anagrams

• work out, workout