(v. t.) To exceed in working; to work more or faster than.
(n.) A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five foot nothing, with hardly any muscle definition, yet manages to outwork everybody.
(2) The percent of those working in gainful occupations was 26%, and in the subgroup of cases with least pronounced disease it was 43%, while only 10% of all patients were outworkers.
(3) He readily acknowledges that any judgment on the integrity of his apology will be kept in abeyance pending the outworkings of the investigation.
(4) Pacquiao, at 35, outworked and outfoxed a younger champion widely regarded as among the top five pound-for-pound fighters in the world.
(5) Consequences” suggests the outworkings of an impersonal law, rather than the result of a political struggle.
(6) They were outworked as well as outpassed and the impression it left was United’s recent ascent to the peaks of the Premier League was deceptive in the extreme.
(7) Ed Bruley, chairman of the Macomb County Democratic party, told the Detroit News that Clinton was “outworked in the primary but she’s making the right moves now” by focusing on the middle class and economic policies.
Postern
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate.
(n.) A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.